László Kozma (47)  finds himself in a prison in the 1950s, during the Cold War in Central Europe, although he is innocent.

 

This period provides the framework for our film. Kozma looks for the reasons in his past and the 20s, 40s, and 50s come to life.

 

His talent is noticed at a young age, a serious career awaits him, but since he could not continue his university studies in Hungary due to his Jewish origin, he goes abroad and becomes a successful chief engineer in Belgium.

 

His talent is quickly recognized in Antwerp, with 39 patents and the design of the first European computer, world fame would be waiting for him, but his career is once again interrupted by the drift of history.

 

After the Nazi occupation of Belgium, he is forced to flee and must choose: either he migrates to America or returns to Hungary.

 

Kozma is not a religious person, but he deeply believes in the power of knowledge and sincerely loves his country, which expelled him. Despite his wife's advice, he chooses Budapest and takes his family and his French-speaking children with him. He has no idea that he will be sent to a concentration camp, lose 12 relatives, also his wife, who goes looking for him, but never returns home.

 

Meanwhile in the prison he is forced to make a deal with the head of the state defense agency: in exchange for being able to correspond with his daughters, he must design seemingly impossible inventions in the prison's engineering department.

 

He slowly understands the logic of power, which also plays a role in his eventual release from prison after 5 years.