The story recalling the spirit of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king quarrelling with his approaching death, takes place in a cancer hospital in Budapest. Dávid, the young ethnography scientist resigned to his lot and is indifferent to his approaching death. His specialist reckons, however, that such a searching and stubborn mind with thorough knowledge of the nature of his own illness, will be able to fight death.
Dávid
Lilla
doktor Aradi
Margin Sister
Uncle Szoboszlai
Klári
Chief physician
Chief Engineer
Jani Nyíri
Jóna
Sonneborn, bookseller