In the narrow corridors and dark rooms of the once-elegant Hotel Dobray in the sleepy town of S bota, in a forgotten land wedged between Hungary and Yugoslavia, human destinies collide like the billiard balls in the hotel's casino. It is late March 1945 and the long war is nearing its end. The Soviet Union's Red Army will soon arrive to liberate the town, although no one knows what to expect. J zsef S rdy, the ruthless leader of a small Hungarian...