Szerető fia, Péter

The scene is the Pálossy estate, where Mrs. Balogh Gáspár, an elderly woman and a farm-hand's wife, is dying. At her death-bed she makes the confession that Péter, his son, was not her late husband's son, but that of Pálossy, the old count. The count is overjoyed to learn that he is, after all, the father of a hardworking, honest young man. Béla, his legal son, who has been spoiled by his parents because of a lung disease he suffers from, and who by now has become an egoist and an evil man, is not exactly his father's pride and happiness. Béla wants to seduce Sós Juliska, Péter's fiancée. He is drunk and is on his way to the hunting lodge, where he had previously taken the girl. His car ends up in a ditch. Carrying the young man who is seriously injured in his arms, Péter offers to be a blood donor to help the dying man. (Verleiher-Text)