Zoltan Bartos, an amateur filmmaker and composer of popular dance music, made films between the end of the 1920s and the middle of the 1950s. This one-hour film, taken from the nearly five-hour film diary, follows the life and history of the Bartos family. The small rituals and events in the family provide a view of the bridging of an age and a culture, the history of the lifetime of a generation. Reviving a world of the past creates a mirror that reflects the face of private and official history.