They called them "the angel-makers of Nagyrév," the women of the small Hungarian village deep in the southeast of the country. The story had begun, as they say, rather lustfully. For when the men of the women of Nagyrév were at the front during World War I, they not only knew how to take care of the house and the farm, but also of their female welfare. The inmates of the nearby prisoner-of-war camp played a decisive role in this. When their husbands returned from the war, wounded and embittered, they got rid of them with the help of arsenic. They no longer wanted them, they were used to "better" things from prisoners of war. At some point, however, the authorities became aware of the growing number of deaths. And the drama ran its course.
The radio play narrates this frenzied series of murders with comic ambiguity and from different perspectives. There is the midwife who distributed the poison; the mother who killed her husband, her lover and later her neighbor; a young woman who kills a former lover and - by mistake - her husband, and the investigator who finally brings the murders to light. Not to mention the discussions of the ladies and gentlemen of the Nagyrev senior citizens' day care center, who still vividly remember it today.
Most of the recordings for the radio play were made with musicians and actors on location, in the river landscape of Nagyrev and its surroundings.