Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, Juli stays at a women's shelter run by Mária.

Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22-year-old French girl, her own daughter.

匈牙利著名女导演梅萨罗什（《收养》）最知名的作品
被禁止发行两年后，在1984年嘎纳电影节上获得了评委会大奖！
世界女性电影史上不朽的经典杰作！
梅萨罗什曾被英国国际电影年鉴评选为影坛五大导演之一。
八十年代最好的东欧电影之一
本片1982年拍摄完毕，1984年才准许发行。它反映了二十世纪四十年代匈牙利的政治、文化和社会生活。这是一部半自传体的影片。导演梅萨罗什是匈牙利著名女导演，她的经历几乎和影片中女主人公一样。1935年年仅5岁时和父亲移居苏联。影片中，女主人公从贾诺什留下的日记里开始理解玛格达，但还是不喜欢她。从玛格达身上，反映了匈牙利的历史的这一段进程。梅萨罗什拍摄了20多部影片。主要的有《九个月》、《郊区的房子》、《就象家—样》、《留给我爱人的日记》(本片续集)、《遗产》、《母亲和女儿》等。本片获得1984年第37届戛纳电影节评委会特别奖。
这部斯大林时期的自传体电影《给我孩子的日记》，用50年代的新闻片连续镜头和片断描绘了那个年代复杂的个人和政治景象。在西方被禁止发行两年后，还是在1984年嘎纳电影节上获得了评委特别奖。
★★剧情介绍:
1947年的一天，一批逃往苏联的匈牙利地下党员乘飞机回到布达佩斯，十几岁的小姑娘尤莉也在其中。她父亲，一位著名的雕塑家在苏联30年代大清洗时被捕，杳无音讯。母亲是画家，会多国语言，常带尤莉去看电影，但在尤莉很小的时侯就去世了。尤莉随祖父母回国，住在姑妈玛格达家里。玛格达过去是地下党员，战后是一家报纸的主编，她的公寓华丽而舒适。尤莉在特权阶层子女才能上的学校念书，姑母要收她为养女。但尤莉不同意，她不喜欢玛格达。她逃学去看电影，想念过去的生活，想念父母。尤莉很喜坎姑母的老战友贾诺什，老布尔什维克，大工厂的总工程师。贾诺什的妻子和女儿在一次空袭中被炸死，儿子成了残废。他也很关心尤莉。玛格达后来当了监狱长，积极参与1949年开始的大清洗运动，贾诺什突然失踪了。尤莉决定离开玛格达，到一家工厂当工人。1953年她去监狱探望了贾诺什，她示意将和他的儿子一起等着他自由归来。

Also known as Red Riding Hood, Year 2000, this Hungarian/Canadian co-production is not for children. Director Marta Meszaros again dwells upon the travails of women trapped in oppressive society. This time, the Red Riding Hood legend is used metaphorically within the framework of a quasi-futuristic storyline. The "wolves" are of the human variety, and "friendly hunters" few and far between.
This is a weird and sometimes disturbing take-off on the beloved fairy tale. In this one, the main girl is far more whiny and petulant. She has a boyfriend (who is somehow able to come and go into the forest from the city with no visible means of transport) and she is able to communicate telepathically with the wolf. There is a sub-plot about the girl's divorced parents which doesn't really make sense and the film features a very odd development towards the end. The forest scenery is gorgeous and the film is professionally made but it's hard to tell if this was made for kids or not as it contains so many odd and questionable elements. It's definitely not the story that most people grew up with.

A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle exploitation inherent in the apparently freer existence of young girls in the contemporary city.

Savanyú and his friend work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afternoon and the night, i.e. parties and concerts. Savanyú dates Juli, they are already engaged. The young men live as sub-tenants, the young women in workers' hostels. None of these places are suited for spending time together. They are in need of an apartment. Out of the ruinous apartment which they lay siege on, however, they are sent away by the otherwise friendly policeman. At a concert held in the Park of Youth, Juli gets to know Géza. They flirt, then go to the country with a pop-group. Savanyú and his friends follow them. A minor fight cools the atmosphere.

Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son.