It’s November 1956, and Russian tanks have just invaded Budapest, crushing the revolution. A young couple, István (Gergely Váradi) and Márta (Varga-Járó Sára), rushes for the last train that can get them out of the country. When aboard, they are approached by a mysterious fedora-wearing man (Pál Mácsai), who encourages Márta, a talented chess player carrying a set, to play against him. In another, parallel storyline, a priest (Károly Hajduk) is captured and imprisoned by the secret police. As they subject him to psychological torments in hopes he will give up the location of an unknown Vatican treasure, he finds salvation in vigorously studying a chess textbook. These two stories, tied by chess and people who desperately strive for freedom, will inevitably cross aboard the...
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