Driving by his deep will of revenge, Sonson, a young smart and courageous Hungarian lawyer, who by the end of the Second World War and after the German invasion to his town and murdering his wife, leads his town's courageous men to face those cruel Nazis.
The framing device, whatever the commercial reasons, also has the unfortunate effect of sapping a degree of urgency from this ponderous and unfocused 1944-set tale.
