Beautifully and sensitively scripted film portraying the healing effect of love between two traumatized Holocaust survivors in postwar Budapest. The main characters, a doctor and a teenaged woman who both lost their families in the camps, find solace in each other as surrogates for lost parents and children.

The script is cleverly penned and the acting and direction is excellent. The cinematography has a definite bleakness, reflective of not only Hungary after the war but as a prelude to the Stalinist postwar years.