Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary Cope with the effects of the Collapse of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory outlet, has shut, and the natives, who include three couples and a doctor, await a cash payment. Irimias, a villager regarded as dead, unbeknownst to the natives and, returns, is actually a police informant. In a plot, he persuades the villagers to form a commune.