During the reign of the Arrow Cross Party in World War II, four friends are chatting around the table of a bar owned by Béla when a wounded photographer who has just come back from the battlefront joins them.
One of the friends, a watchmaker named Miklós Gyuricza, poses a moral question to János about two hypothetical characters; Tomóceusz Katatiki and Gyugyu.
The powerful and careless Katatiki treated the poor Gyugyu with extreme brutality, but never felt any remorse as he lived by the barbarian morality of his age.
Gyugyu lived in misery and suffering but found comfort in the fact that whatever cruelty happens to him it is never caused by him and he is still a guiltless person with a clear conscience.
They are taken to an office of the party where an Arrow Cross official (Zoltán Latinovits) forces them to slap a dying partisan in the face in order to be freed.