A young court bailiff's first eviction case turns into a nightmare because of a desperate old lady who is willing to sacrifice everything to keep her home.

A firefighter develops a fear of heights and has strange visions after his wedding proposal goes up in smoke. Will a teacher he meets later cure his vertigo and mend his broken heart?

In communist Hungary a young mother wants to live with her son. To do so, she has to kidnap her own child from her influential, manipulative ex-husband and escape with him to the West.