Loved this film, so much the "country girl" coming to the big city, and especially Sándor Csányi (see Kontroll if you haven't). However, what kind of heavy, dirty industry have these girls found work in??? I assumed Hungary stopped such heavy labor as modernization of Western Europe has sweep in?
No Idea. Pulverizing coal? I got the impression that it wasn't a real factory, it was made to look like a generalized sense of a factory and factory work. We never learn what actual crimes are committed by their boyfriends either, we just know they were involved in some sort of shady activity, it could have been drugs, loansharking, maybe even hired guns; the plot just doesn't spell this out. Which was interesting because we get the precise point of view of the village girl, we know what she knows, and there's not a lot of detail about very certain things, things she's not supposed to know about and are kept from her.
"...Guess What S1m0ne! We have now entered an age where we can manufacture fraud faster than our ability to detect it"