FLESH (HB)

Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. As these encounters shift into a clandestine relationship, Istvan’s life spirals out of control. Years later, rising through the ranks from the army to the elite circles of London's super-rich, he is torn between love, intimacy, status, and wealth, which threaten to undo him completely.