It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear.

[2] The film tells the story of Kata, a 42-year-old female factory worker who lives alone near a residential care facility for abandoned children.

He declines the offer, and the woman becomes interested in Anna, a girl from the children's home.

She helps Anna marry her boyfriend, and decides to adopt a baby from the orphanage.

As Mészáros' Nine Months (1976), Adoption starts with a semi-documentary sequence shot inside a factory.