Paul Bogár is released after a year in custody on suspicion of burglary - due to lack of evidence. The man seems to accept society's declared norms, taking a hard physical job in a factory. In his spare time, however, he resumes burglarising houses, carefully and without a trace. He gives the money and the gold he gets to his sister and her family. Although he always works alone, he takes his helpless brother-in-law with him as a driver. Beetle's principle: they too have the right to a good life, and it is impossible to provide it through work. However, a rival gang takes advantage of his brother-in-law to trap him...

The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.