The Lost Generation

The engineer Ambrus has been suspended in his job because he publicly called the attention of the customers to a construction mistake of some goods designed to be exported His immediate boss learns the news on a business trip to Paris He meets his old friend Lendvay an emigrant from Hungary and his French wife in a cellar bar After their talk Benkő starts seeing things in a different perspective When he returns home he decides to take a stand for Ambrus against Ferenczi the general director despite his wifes and the old directors advice