A seemingly average teenage girl is being questioned by her mentor to understand why she did what she did, why she takes the decision that she is taking. The girl recall memories and experiences but not all of them are her own. We get involved in the challenges of grandparents, sisters, teachers, kindergarten peers and classmates through the exceptionally skilled girl’s tale who can assimilate with anything or anything, reads the mind and memories of others and does not want to follow someone else’s example.

While many see the majority of Gypsies as unemployed, Roma workers have long played a prominent role in building houses in Hungary. Initially in the field of adobe bricklaying, later in brick factories and then in the construction industry in general, the role of Roma has become increasingly important, sometimes clinging to their identity, sometimes abandoning it.

The seven pennies are now in the man’s pocket. The day he found them, he lost something. Something that cannot be replaced. Through the recollection of his memories, he returns to the turning point of his childhood, to the day when play suddenly became reality. This is how we enter the world of Zsigmond Móricz’s short story, which tells not only of poverty, but also of self-sacrificing parental love.