This tender black-and-white Hungarian drama takes place in the '50s. A woman's husband has been arrested by the Hungarian secret police and imprisoned as a dissident. The young wife lives with her mother-in-law, a sweet and magnetic woman, appears to believe that her son has immigrated to America. Unable to do anything about her husband's imprisonment, the daughter-in-law keeps the old woman's good cheer alive by concocting a series of letters from her husband, wherein he does incredible and wonderful things