Tüzet kérek (1912)

The reporter from Budapest reads the morning papers while sitting on a bench in the Museum Garden, and notices a young couple. The young people are very depressed. The reporter soon learns that because they love each other, they cannot be each other's. In their desperation, they decide to commit suicide. The young man goes to the nearby gun shop and soon returns with a pistol. The reporter wants to prevent the impending tragedy, but the young people notice that he has guessed their plan and disappear from the park. Before they hop on the tram to Huvösvölgy, they hand two letters to a messenger. They hope that they have gotten rid of their intrusive observer, but they're wrong, because the reporter sends his assistant, the young journalist, after them, and he himself tracks down the messenger and finds out who the letters are addressed to. He visits the two recipients, one a rich home owner, the other a poor janitor, the parents of the suicidal lovers. He rushes to the police station with the two worried fathers. The young journalist informs the reporter where the young people are. The fathers rush to the scene with the police. One of the detectives pretends to be drunk and thus approaches the young people. He asks the boy for a light, the young man, to get rid of the drunk, takes out his lighter. However, the detective acquires the revolver in a careless moment, at his signal the soft-hearted fathers come out from behind the nearby bush, and the story ends happily.