News quickly spreads of the murder of a Romany family in a Hungarian
village. The perpetrators have escaped and nobody claims to know who
might have committed the crime. For another Romany family living close
by, the murder only serves to confirm their latent, carefully repressed
fears. Far away in Canada the head of the family decides that his wife,
children and their grandfather must join him as soon as possible.
Living
in fear of the racist terror that surrounds them and feeling abandoned
by the silent majority, the family tries to get through the day after
the attack. By nightfall when darkness descends on the village the
family pushes the beds closer together than usual. Yet their hope of
escaping the madness proves illusory.
Based on an actual series of
killings in Hungary that claimed the lives of eight people in less than a
year, Bence Fliegauf portrays the pogrom-like atmosphere which breeds
such violence. The camera stays hot on the heels of the protagonists,
making the breathless escalation of events physically palpable.
