A divorced middle-aged woman takes home an ardent suitor, only to discover that he prefers her teenage son. The mother is an overworked coffee-shop attendant, the suitor turns out to be a plain-clothes policeman and the boy is a frustrated flautist.
Acting
Bodnár's crushingly unaware maternal optimism.
Direction
Tímár's deadpan staging of domestic horror.
Director
Péter Tímár
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made as Communism collapsed; the closet metaphor wasn't subtle, it was survival.
The title references a famous Hungarian poem about impossible longing—fitting for a film where nobody gets what they want.
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