Two actors and a theater assistant live in modest circumstances in a rented apartment in Budapest. The two men constantly play cards with each other in symbolic stakes, and Béla Bognár's wife, Piri, runs the household. However, the atmosphere is good, and they quote dialogues appropriate to the given situation from the texts of their roles.
Piri, Bognár's wife
Béla Bognár, actor
Fodor, house owner
Szépvölgyi
Detektív
Margit, Fodor's wife
Mr.Abel
Fodor's mother-in-law
Mr. Brown
Kovács
Housekeeper
dancer Lucy