The two have something in common besides fear: they are singers whose very natures make the silence unbearable. Both P�ter and Katalin keep their heads down and their mouths clamped shut, because silence is the only safety they know. Moving to Budapest for a manual labor job, P�ter meets Katalin Varga, an unwed mother whose baby’s father has vanished, most likely at the hands of the secret police. In this milieu of dread, the best land of P�ter Benedek’s peasant family is seized and his life upended.
After a lost war and a brutal transition to communism, the people live under constant threat of blacklisting, property confiscation, arrest, imprisonment, and worse. In 1951, a grim hush has settled over Hungary.
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