The story recalling the spirit of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king quarrelling with his approaching death, takes place in a cancer hospital in Budapest. Dávid, the young ethnography scientist resigned to his lot and is indifferent to his approaching death. His specialist reckons, however, that such a searching and stubborn mind with thorough knowledge of the nature of his own illness, will be able to fight death.
as Dávid
as Lilla
as doktor Aradi
as Margin Sister
as Uncle Szoboszlai
as Klári
as Chief physician
as Chief Engineer
as Jani Nyíri
as Jóna
as Sonneborn, bookseller
