Kata, in her forties, lives alone in the house left by her parents. Kata's solitude and self-reliance make her an object of interest for the teenage girls of an orphanage located in the village, and in the leafless chill of late fall one girl, Anna, seeks her out. Anna has had enough of parents, however, and a new kind of relationship must be forged between the two women. At the same time, Kata wants to have a child with the married man she is seeing, but he has had enough of children. In this truly feminist film, a tone of complete honesty prevails, not just between characters but as a pact between filmmaker and viewer. Therefore, we observe but we do not indulge in the emotions depicted, and what appears on the surface to be a sad, though beautifully shot, film is actually one of precise introspection, what Yvette Biro called "the sobriety of solitude."