
Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his first marriage – are isolated in a little house under an extinct volcano, where each strives for personal happiness but is suffocated by their dependence on the others.
Béla Barsi was born on January 23, 1906 and passed away 56 years ago at the age of 62 on April 30, 1968.