In 1956 Budapest, eighteen-year-old Jewish orphan Csilla keeps her head down and quietly plots her escape from the communist-controlled country, even as the government publicly exonerates her parents whom they murdered some years earlier for crimes against the state. When she meets Tam?s, whose boyfriend was also murdered, they decide to join a growing band of resistance fighters in the city. Watching over the events is the angel of death, Azriel.