A photographer and a retoucher are wandering in small villages. They go from house to house offering their services. They try to record the truth, the true faces of these people.
A young historian visits his stepmother in the small village where he grew up. After being away in the city for eleven years he is saddened and grows upset seeing her hardships.
Two librettists, Mr. Rezso and Mr. Dezso arrive and pluck people living in a bare valley, in order to turn them into operetta characters. The two librettists come up with a plot in which ...