A mysterious circus excites a small Hungarian town into a rebellion when a promised act doesn't perform.

Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.

Eighteen years after the failure of the revolution and freedom fighting 1848-49, the politicians of Hungary preparing for a compromise with Austria try to make use of the symbol of the revolution, the figure of the poet Petőfi Sándor, to their own advantage. They visit all the memorial sites, find the witnesses and recall the famous events. Memories and political intentions conflict with each other, and the circumstances of the poet's death cannot be reconstructed entirely.