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Martin and Frida married solely because she was pregnant. Later he would have a passionate side-affair with Rut. Rut's sexual feelings were highly neurotic because she had been sexually abused by her stepfather. When the chimney sweep came, she seduced him and afterward felt dirty and desperate. She found and seduced Martin. From the beginning she interspersed mean attacks. During the war he was drafted, but deserted. He and Rut hired a room by the chimney sweep. Soon Rut seriously stabbed Martin's hand with a fork and they were thrown out. But whatever Rut did, she could always "make it undone" by one word. Eventually they lived at the loft of an empty storehouse. On New Year's Eve Rut went to her mother and stepfather and demanded all cash the latter had. He gave her what was equal to four months salary for an unskilled worker. Martin believed she had got the money by prostitution. He left her and reported himself to the police. Rut promised to revenge herself. Martin was acquitted because a friend testified that he was mentally ill when he deserted. He and Rut reconciled, but she did not forget her promise. She left him when it would hurt most. He tried to kill himself, but was saved.

A woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in.

A Budapest gypsy musician has to sell his beloved family violin and later searches for it in Russia, where he reconnects with his first girlfriend, now a member of high society.

A busy surgeon forgets his wife Mária's birthday. He does not even attend the dinner in her honor. Mária is offended and, in her desperation, accepts the courting of a pianist. But when he suddenly proposes, she is forced to rethink her relationship with her husband.

Mária, a beautiful lady living a carefree, happy life, is on the brink of tragedy and cannot find a way out. At the request of her seamstress, in her name and role, she visits a wounded soldier with whom the seamstress has corresponded anonymously, and who is believed to have only hours to live.

A young woman is made to forget her past, the men, and that she was 'The Girl of the Night'.

Dr. Erzsebet Szikszay, lawyer, finds herself in an impossible situation. For the sake of her client, she is forced to play the role of a complete stranger's wife, and to continue the performance in the man's apartment... The situation is only complicated when it turns out that the man is the opposing lawyer.

A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements. However, disgruntled townsfolk want to chase away the gang who has been - in their search for survival - laying waste to their crops. A battle ensues ending in the death of a little boy - and resolution.

How did a beautiful American divorcee get into the bed of her best friend's fiancé right after returning to Budapest?