From the Nazis» youthful victims innocently exulting in a «put the Jews in the ghetto» game... to a May Day march through Budapest under the blaring strains of prerecorded cheers... to the almost surreal
scenes of young escapees securing the help of a hunchbacked peasant and his fantastically beautiful, colorfully costumed wife, he paints a
vivid and suspenseful, personal and
cultural portrait.