Blurring the line between cinema and verité even more, in On Probation Schiffer takes as his subject the wayward son of one of Black Train's workers (the seven year old boy who answered "clean factories" when asked what he wanted to do when he grew up). At seventeen, Kitka is not cleaning up anything. On probation after a series of petty thefts, he is sent back to his native village, but the sight of the dilapidated farmsteads, the families of eight going on nine, the drinking and hopelessness sends him fleeing to Budapest. Schiffer accompanies him, back and forth between village and city, between the life of a lonely worker living in a hostel, and a hostile son eyeing his small village for its potential; to a rock concert where "thirty thousand socially mute people are yelling and wriggling: something they failed to find words to express bursts from their throats in the collective roar" (Schiffer).