Yesterday

October, 1956. Colonel lieutenant Szabó sends a platoon with the mission of calming the people demonstrating in the town. The platoon is lined up under the command of Lieutenant Csendes and the soldiers aim at the demonstrators. Szusza Kis changes sides, and Csendes is unable to shoot at his childhood mate. They withdraw. Csendes's father guards the possessions of the agricultural co-operative which the former landowner, Mácsay, wants to have carried away. The naive Szusza Kis returns to the village where he is shot by Mácsay and his companions. Lieutenant Csendes returns home to ask for the advise of his father. The old man, however, has been carried off by Mácsay and his men. The lieutenant frees his father and the two men stand the guard together in front of the storehouse of the co-operative. (official distributor synopsis)