The dramatized documentary In the Footsteps of Bartók (Bartók Nyomában) follows Béla Bartók’s trip to Turkey in 1936, from Istanbul to Adana, during which it became clear that Turkish and Hungarian folk music have similarities that go back to our roots.
In a small village, a terrible epidemic is decimating the people. Desperate men, in the absence of a priest, try to end the horrors with their own methods. They believe that the cause of all troubles is a demon called Csóré. One day a stranger arrives in the village.
