Twenty-four year old Eva"s has lived for years in the flat left to her by her parents. The only meaning in her restricted life is her secret affair with Tibor, a forty-four year old married man. Éva has just returned to her comfortable apartment in a Budapest neighborhood from a holiday in Venice with her lover. Yet the vacation has given Éva an unexpected perspective on her life. Believing her lover Tibor, a noted novelist and university professor, is at last going to ask his wife Klára for a divorce, Éva discovers that Tibor may have been less than honest about his intentions.