Identification

While awaiting his release from the Soviet detention camp he is being held in a halfstarved refugee Andras Ambrus finds that an error has been made and his name is not on the tobereleased list It is then that he is forced to assume the identity of a dead man whose name is on the list Ambrus at first refuses but because he was an orphan and cannot produce evidence of his true identity he has no other choice However when he returns to the outer world and the community he was raised in he is greeted with suspicion When he tries to claim his partownership of a farm from his adopted uncle he is refused and beaten by farmhands the uncle sets on him