György Pálfi's bizarre, sometimes grotesque film is set over three generations, beginning with Csaba Czene as Morosgoványi Vendel, a sexually frustrated orderly during the war who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is Balatony Kálmán, a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child, Balatony Lajoska who becomes obsessed with taxidermy to such an unhealthy degree, he practises his craft before the subject is fully dead.