DOWN BY LOVE

24-year-old Éva returns from her holiday in Venice to her large, empty apartment. There she waits for a call from her lover Tibor, who has promised to leave his wife Klara and move with Éva to South America. Having nothing to do but wait, she talks to her teddy bear, letting him in on her growing desperation. Until shortly before the end of the film, all people she is in contact with will be nearly invisible, present only through telephone- calls and conversations at the door. Gradually, the reason for Éva’s self-made isolation becomes apparent. As a child, she lost her parents in a car-crash and was adopted by their friends. Her adoptive father Tibor raped her when she was thirteen and turned her into his lover. Adoptive-mother Klara sent Éva to an orphanage; later, Éva moved back into her parents’ apartment. Since then she is the mental prisoner of a man 22 years her senior – who is, in one person, her father, lover and only reason to live. Tibor, a well-known author, doesn’t want to let her go or legitimize their relationship. Beautiful Éva, who spurns all suitors and only talks to her girlfriend Zsuzsa, starts drifting into nightmares and delusions. When she decides to confront Klara and discovers the dimension of Tibor’s betrayal, she devises a deadly plan. A nightmarish one-person play about a young woman living in desperate dependency, played by Hungarian shooting star Patricia Kovács.