The action takes place from fall to winter in a remote Hungarian village, where humorless Pastor Janos runs a halfway house for addicts, provides pre-marriage counseling for clueless locals, and supervises the primary school’s Christmas pageant. Unfortunately, his range of pastoral care doesn’t extend to providing acceptance or support to his neurotic son Mozes. A timid vegetarian who has just been released from a mental hospital, Mozes sorely tries the pastor’s expectations of what a real man should be. Before Janos gets the chance to force Mozes to volunteer at a leprosy mission in the Ukraine, he keels over from a heart attack. But his ghost lingers on, appearing only to his frustrated son, who tries to help the apparition find eternal rest.

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