Rita has just lost her job. On her way home, she is kidnapped—only to wake up hogtied in a sparsely furnished room. Her captor insists she is his runaway sister Szilvi, a member of the Árpád family, and she must be “reintegrated” through a series of corrective measures. As Rita’s resistance falters, a chilling realization sets in: her only chance of escape may be to play along. Gábor Holtai’s disquieting and superbly acted debut defies genre expectations with clever twists. A box-office sensation in Budapest, it lands a biting critique of autocracy beneath its escalating psychological tension. (me)