Were Getting Along

More than a storyline with a beginning middle and end this tale of a foundry worker who engages a woman and fellow worker to do housekeeping for him is a tale that holds up the Hungarian social system against the morality of an exploitative malefemale relationship After his wife dies the roughcut and intentionally nameless man Jozsef Madaras eventually coerces the woman Julianna Nyako into doing his housework for a small remuneration Everything goes along passably well for awhile until the man adds in more household responsibility in the form of chickens to raise Due to extra work at the factory the woman cannot tend to the chickens as she should and the result is that some of them die The man is furious verbally abuses her and then rapes her Later the woman discovers she is pregnant with dire consequences