Fallow Land

The story of the film with a touch of journalistic atmosphere takes place in the autumn 1919 after the fall of the proletarian dictatorship The main figure is Zilahy Kálmán a highschool teacher very much attracted to Adys ideology He is at the same time a rational minded sober character keeping a certain distance from the chaotic events During the first months of the terror of the Whites he takes a stand for his persecuted colleague and with his wifes help he hides Pálos a Communist commissar in his flat