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In the courtyard of an old mill, the grandchildren of the elderly owners are living their best life, when the presence of a newly arrived, mysterious relative slowly begins to creep through the air of the homestead. As the initially temporary state seems to become permanent, the tension mounts, and the shadows of childhood comingle with the fragile love and power relationships of the farm’s inhabitants, amidst the atmosphere of communist Hungary in the 1950s and ‘60s.