Budapest, spring 1957: a year after the failed Hungarian revolution, twelve-year-old Jewish boy Andor, raised by his mother on idealized stories of his late father, sees his world collapse when a brutal man shows up at their door claiming to be his real father. The boy firmly rejects the intruder, and as the gap between mother and son widens, Andor resolves to save his family at any cost. Inspired by the director László Nemes’s family history, Orphan blends childhood trauma and post-revolutionary tension in a visceral drama that delves deep into the wounds of the postwar era.