Fajankó

We are in a small village somewhere in Hungary. Christmas is approaching.

Jankó and Bandi are brothers. They hadn't seen each other since Bandi came of age and suddenly ran away unannounced to an unknown place. Now he moves back home after eighteen years without a word, bringing his wife with him.

Bandit's cousin, the newly elected local mayor, informs him of Janko's embarrassing fascination with human-shaped objects.

Margo used to live in Budapest, but her grandmother has recently died and left her only granddaughter in charge of the local pub. Margo doesn't know about such business matters. Or much else, for that matter. Besides, apart from the memory of Mamuka, there's nothing to keep her in the country. But when she meets Janko, who is sitting in the nativity scene in the town square, she finds a strange, yet obvious, role in the story.

On Christmas Day, a mysterious man-sized package arrives from Shanghai. It is left on Jack's doorstep.

"My defining cinematic experience was an American independent film, Plastic Love, which was one of my major sources of inspiration when writing the play. A less pronounced motif really stuck with me. I often see this echoed in my own experience and in the stories of my generation, now in our thirties: we suffer from childhood traumas, from the inability to deal with family taboos. We are desperately struggling to find ourselves, while denying our parents, condemning them for their mistakes, which we then repeat over and over again in our own lives. We are anxious, lonely, rootless. It seems like a vicious circle that can only be broken when we have dug ourselves so deep into our inevitable pit that it seems impossible to continue. Jack and Bandi will get that chance. I really hope they will take it." Nikolett Németh