András Szabad grows up in a small town in post-war communist Hungary, always under the protective and loving presence of his mother, a librarian with whom he has a very special bond. In 1956, his father tries to disrupt a Soviet tank parade and is jailed. When he returns home three years later, completely broken, András's mother dies suddenly, an event that indisputably marks the end of his childhood. András and his father move to Budapest, looking for a new and difficult start, and it will be there that the young man will discover photography, a passion that will mark him deeply. Obsessed with showing the invisible through the visible, with redeeming people and things from their intrinsic fleetingness and fixing them before their disappearance, András observes and conjures everything through his Leica camera, an artifact that becomes a extension of your being. But the apprenticeship –of life, of art– has only just begun. There is still all the pain and all the beauty ahead. He has yet to meet Eva.

With a sober and poetic style, often dealing with heartbreaking themes, but also paying attention to the brilliance of small daily miracles with a pristine gaze, The End is a novel of formation in which art and Eros stand as eternal saviors of a soul. doomed to orphanhood. A memorable work in which Attila Bartis masterfully combines family history with a journey through the convulsive European history of the 20th century.