The heroes of "Taxidermia" are three men. Three generations of a family, who happen to live in Eastern-Europe, in Hungary. The 'Balatony Saga' is just like a subjective history of the second half of the 20th century told by Lajos, the youngest member of the family. Surrealism and historical facts get mixed up in his imagination, creating a kind of "fairy realism", like for example in Marquez' novels. Or in the works of the popular contemporary Hungarian writer, Parti Nagy Lajos - the script is based on some of his stories.