Setting: Budapest, capital of Hungary, and later Vienna.
Time: early 1988, nearing the end of the communist era.
Budapest Klotild Palace (Klotild-palota), Ferenciek Square (public domain)“THE PLAIN OF MEMORY” is a drama set in Budapest, Hungary – circa 1988. The communist era in Eastern Europe is entering its final stages, when a young American woman on a wayward holiday is ensnared by an ambiguous operator who may or may not be working for both the C.I.A. and the Hungarian secret police, the A.V.H. She concurrently becomes involved in the private lives of a number of Hungarians, and unwittingly becomes the catalyst to a tragedy.
Great Synagogue on Dohány Street, Budapest (public domain)She survives, battered, but an unforgetting witness.
