A powerful account of Charles de Gaulle's journey during World War II, from his rise as a military leader to his emergence in French politics between 1940-1945.

France, 1640. Lawyer Maitre Pompignac has never won a case: all his clients are dead, either drawn and quartered, impaled or scalded... One day, a young woman comes to him and asks him to defend an innocent girl: 11-year-old Roxane, wrongly accused of killing a Marshal of France. Pompignac accepts, without realising that Roxane is in fact not an 11-year-old child, but a goat.

Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is in charge of building public support for the Holocaust and for the war that Hitler is about to start.

In 1849, the liberation war against the Habsburg Empire is close to its end in Hungary. Having hidden from military draft, Barnabás leaves his hometown and walks across the country to find and save his wounded brother who has been hiding with a guerilla group deep in the forest. Despite their exhaustion, lack of food or information, they are still fighting for their cause. Barnabás finds his brother alienated and distrustful. The tension between the boys further increases when they turn out to be attracted to the same nurse in the camp. Hoping he can earn his brother's trust and take him home, Barnabás decides to stay and lie about his past. In the meantime, he has to face the cruelty of war.

In 11th-century Persia, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.

Kishorváth is preparing to direct the first film of his life, and his script is currently being examined by the Board of Trustees. The film project tells the story of his grandfather, who chooses a peculiar form of passive resistance after '56 in the early '60s. He and his companions found an Indian tribe, wore moccasins and withdrew from society. This game is governed by strict morals that the tribe members take very seriously. However, the Indians along the Danube are suspicious in the atmosphere of retaliation, for the already paranoid authorities. They possess strange weapons, communicate with each other in incomprehensible ways and, even more threatening, they correspond with American citizens, let alone meet them. The majority of the Board of Trustees welcomes Kishorváth's film plan with satisfaction, but there is someone among the reviewers whose family is also involved in the story and knows it quite differently. And this encourages Kishorváth to investigate further...