The gunpowder-smelling world of Hungarian folk tales is bloody and cruel. The poor man’s three sons, the pious shepherd, the outlaw outlaw and the newly demobilized hussar officer, return home to their father after ten years of absence, but in the scene of their childhood, they learn that their father made a deal with the devil: he sold him the soul of one of them in exchange for wealth beyond all imagination. And the devil comes to collect the bargain…