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Nineteen years ago, wealthy and successful film director and producer Charles Keenen disappeared without a trace from Los Angeles.
At the death of E. Bloom, his son tries to get to know him better. From the scanty data, he transforms his father's life into a series of legends and myths, and through these stories he begins to understand his great failures.
Branka is a girl of middle-class origin. She lost her parents and grew up with her grandmother. She develops into a beautiful and intelligent person. She graduates from teacher training school and is full of ideals.
The novel Starinska prica from 1978 is one of the most personal and emotional works by Hungarian writer Magda Szabó, in which the author combines a family saga, women's destiny, and criticism of social norms into one powerful literary testimony.