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This unusual love story takes place in a slaughterhouse, and focuses in on Endre (Géza Morcsanyi), who spots a new face amongst the crowd; the company’s new quality controller Maria (Alexandra Borbély). He lives alone, and with a disability given he only has one functioning arm, and Maria is obsessed with cleanliness, and while seemingly polar opposites, they connect thanks to a sharing of the very same dream, bringing them closer together. Though while he seeks a relationship, she’s struggling to overcome a fear of a physical kind, uncomfortable with being touched, seeking a way to channel her emotions and feel ready to fall in love.
The film does feel somewhat repetitive in parts, though even the tedium that exists feels deliberate, to evoke the monotony of their everyday life – at least until the other steps into it. This enforces the need for their coming together, as though they have to find each other to break out of this routine. So while the opening act lags a little, it slowly picks up pace, and by the close of play you’re just desperate for them both to be together, and more importantly, to be happy. Which, when dealing with a romantic tale of this nature, makes for a job well done.