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Dr. István Kovács is a young university professor, the son of peasant parents. Adored by his students, he is popular in the small-town community, and everyone knows he has a big career ahead of him. But no one understands how he could be courting Ada Tatár, the celebrated but vain beauty of the small town.

The famous Marriage Market is about to take place in Palánk, Transylvania. János Gergely has just returned from Canada with his stepdaughter, Lucretia, who is very interested in the folk tradition in question. Meanwhile, Dr. Kiss, as Peter Hadai's legal representative, would like to collect a debt owed to Lucretia's father, but Gergely refuses to honor the demand. The venue of the Marriage Market is the tavern. With her maid Biri, Lukrécia also visits the bar in folk costume. Hadai dresses up as a peasant and marries Lucretia. It is only in Pest that when they discover that the marriage is valid.

Five friends, a piano-player, an actor, a critic, a doctor and a banker meet again for a twentieth school anniversary in the countryside mansion of the piano player. But the sudden arrival of an attractive woman upsets their peaceful plans.

Maga, is trying to snare a young man she likes as a husband gets another bachelor to pose as her about-to-be-divorced husband for reasons not quite discernible.

Paul Javor, husband of Gizi Bajor, is imprisoned in a Russian camp in Siberia. Bajor, a wife of short duration before Javor goes to war, extremely beautiful and gay (the original definition)turns to other men for diversion. The war ends and Javor discovers he has fallen in love with a Russian girl, the 4th-billed and credited Iren Agai. He learns what has happened at home with his diversion-prone wife, and gets himself officially listed as dead in order to stay in Russian with Agai.

Set in the 1880's, Ferenc Kiss, a bandit, has had a long relationship with innkeeper Maria Lazar. The latter falls in love with Paul Javor, a mounted patrolman. But she knows Kiss will take some form of reprisal. Kiss attempts to kill Javor and Lazar, believing that he has, turns him over the the authorities.