Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play with in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the gorgeous waitress Ilona who inspires. Because of its melody strikes a string of suicides his song of Gloomy Sunday is , at first, loved and afterward feared. The fragile balance of this sensual ménage à trois is routed off kilter when the German Hans falls deeply in love with Ilona well and moves.