In the fascist terror of 1944, a Budapest cloak-room attendant and her family embark on a tragicomic journey to find a missing coat. Because honour is honour.

In the winter of 1944 guests of a dance school were disrupted by an air raid. András Adorján - the cloakroom attendant's son - steals a coat to sell and buy Aranka Fussbaum's services. In defense of her honor she goes after him with her family to recover the coat. While the war is running, they commit much greater crimes than theft and lose much more than a coat.