Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
A Hungarian soldier returning from fighting in the Second World War marries the woman he believes to be the widow of a former comrade who he thinks died in the POW camp in which they were held.
Professor Sergius insists that he invented a machine that can fly faster than the speed of earth's rotation and that this enables him to fly back to the past. To prove this, he promises the hand of his daughter Rózsi and all his possessions to the one who is willing to try the space travel with him. The romantic and adventurous Hungarian count Ákos Tibor finally accepts this challenge. Luckily, before time travelling he attends a costume ball dressed as a Hungarian hussar. So when they arrive in the past, people think he is a far relative of the wealthy landlord in whose field they landed. This is how strange adventures begin for our 20th century hero in the world of 18th century Austro-Hungary...
