Judit Elek’s so-far last fiction feature is a curious mix of elements.
It started out as an attempt to adapt Marguerite Duras’ 1960 novel Dix Heures et demie du soir en été, and the story of a couple with a teenage daughter driving through a foreign land still forms the narrative backbone of Retrace. It then got augmented with elements from Miklós Mészly's 1979 novella Szárnya...
