Zsuzsanna Száger

Házasságtörés

It’s summer in Budapest, high school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realisation that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka. The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab—who had a previous confrontation with Abel’s conservative father. The tensions of a polarised society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal.

One early summer afternoon, Ilona leaves home to bring flowers to her beloved husband's grave on the occasion of their forty-seventh wedding anniversary. But with dementia setting in as she grows older, she finds herself increasingly lost in the bustling city. On her journey, she is brought together with different people, losing touch with the outside world by the minute.

In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, dangerous forces plot against her. Thugs, thieves, assassins and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.