The film tells the story of Mihály Károlyi's wife, Katinka Andrássy, who, as a member of one of the country's most prestigious aristocratic families, agreed to marry the left-wing politician and land-distributing Károlyi. The story of an aristocratic girl's development from her affirmation of the monarchy, through the democratic movements of the early years of the century and the Soviet Republic, to the anti-fascist movements between the two world wars and her commitment to the common struggle with the communists.