Death does not select, man does. Set in Budapest, Heavenly Shift offers an eerie insight into the everyday lives of a rather extraordinary ambulance crew. The films main character is Milan, a young refugee from the Balkan War, who joins a team of paramedics but inadvertently ends up involved in the funeral business in order to finance his fiancee s rescue from the hostilities.

Heavenly Shift

Composed of four stories; In Bollók's "The Sunny Side", Gavro and Gina have been given deus ex machina the chance to live in three different eras: by the beginning of the 19th century, during the blossoming age of socialism and nowadays. "The Flip Side", by Török, centres on an elderly woman gets dressed in the curtained room, buttons up his raincoat, and goes out. A long queue is spreading in front of the post office. Bodzsár's "The Other Side" is the story of 40 years old White capped man. His weight is 165 pounds. A year ago it was 160. To stop the unflattering tendency, he goes swimming in the most expensive swimming pool. Hajdu's The Wils Side tells the story of a Romanian man who arrived to Hungary ten years ago, he got married and raised a family.