The End Of The Road

Eastern Hungary 2001 - 2002. Village life offers nothing but hard, poorly-paid work in agriculture and living standards on the edge of poverty. Director Tamás Almási follows a family who decide to improve their lot and create conditions under which their children can have a better life, with their only option being to move to the city and work in a foreign factory. Hopes for the future enable them to overcome separation from their children and having to live in a hostel. During rare trips home they speak with neighbours who are trying to create better conditions there through small scale business activities. When the couple rent a flat with the help of their employer, their children join them, giving rise to a new aim: to find a house, or at least a garden, in the city. But their dreams of a better life begin to fade the moment things take a downturn at the factory.