Mihály is a 35-year-old man. As a child, he was taken from an orphanage by Mrs. Vértes. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mrs. Vértes took advantage of the new business opportunities to start a real estate company, clearing out old Budapest buildings of their tenants and handing the empty sites over for demolition. Mihály is her faithful henchman: blindly carrying out her orders like a good soldier, his job is to negotiate with the tenants, and if they resist, to evict them. Moving from one abandoned apartment building to the next, he has no permanent home, and no partner.
One day, Mihály is given a new “assignment”: to evict Anna, a widowed music teacher who stubbornly refuses to move out. When her six-year-old son Dani discovers a striking resemblance between Mihály and his own late father, Mihály makes the life-altering decision to turn against Mrs. Vértes and help them stay.
Mihály discovers for the first time what it means to have a home and a family. But to this emotionally stunted young man, it can be far more frightening than to confront the woman he calls “Mother” in an outburst of all-consuming irrational violence…