who can you really trust . your husband of many year and or a stranger you have only just meet and but upon whom your life depend . janos and kata be throw together during the war force to pose a husband and wife to hide from the nazi . a they grow closer and the intensity and suffocate intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstance in which they find themselves and force them to confront past prejudice and assumption and challenge what they truly believe . the nature of our trust and faith in others be delicately and yet powerfully explore in this profoundly move film by istván szabó .