[1][2] The film was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

[4] Mari, a Romani Hungarian mother who has long endured hardship, lives with her elderly, incapacitated father and two children.

Their daily existence unfolds against the backdrop of a rural Hungarian neighborhood marked by a pervasive sense of unease due to a string of murders.

Filmmaker Bence Fliegauf stated that he was driven to create a movie following a series of attacks on the Roma community between 2008 and 2009, involving weapons such as Molotov cocktails, shotguns, and rifles.

It was during his year-long research for the film that he realized the extent of the challenges faced by the Roma community since the fall of communism around two decades ago.