Edit Gyömrői, a young psychoanalyst, is confronted with a particularly difficult patient in the form of Attila József. The poet is in a constant state of low spirits and suffers from severe stomach problems. The analyst, at the dawn of her career, wants to prove that she can cure him, despite József's unpredictable and sometimes alarmingly intrusive nature. However, she does not take into account the poet's deepening romantic feelings.