Be Good All Your Life

The events take place in Debrecen in the eighteen nineties. Misi is a boy studying at the college in the town. He comes from a poor family. He is bright and sensitive. He carries out his duties with care. He reads the newspaper to a blind old man. He buys a lottery ticket with the numbers the old man dreamt. He never gets round to opening the parcel from home. His classmates share out its contents among themselves. All Misi wants is his mother’s letter. He takes on new work tutoring a boy. He ends up carrying letters for a young woman in that house. The dreamt numbers come up in the draw. But the ticket has slipped out of Misi’s hands. The boy is blamed and cannot defend himself. The truth comes out in the end. Mari Törőcsik and László Tóth appear in the ninety five minute film, a Hungarian production László Ranódy finished in 1960.