An overworked waitress decides to free her little son's friend from the house of a pedophile karate trainer. With that she triggers a chain of everyday tragedies in an anonymous Eastern European metropolis, taking us on a dark journey into the horror living next door.

A new breed of performance enhancing drugs appear on the market. The most potent and undetectable dope to date is planned to be tested on Hungarian sportspeople. A race begins between criminals who want to get their hands on the drug and investigators who try to stop it from spreading, while human lives and the whole sports life of a country are heading for a fall.

The story of one fatal night, SQUAT recounts how authorities attempt to forcefully evacuate a former Soviet military compound, now illegally occupied by scores of anarchist youngsters and other dwellers. As events rapidly spiral out of control, the last remaining hope for a peaceful resolution fades away and the night progresses into escalating violence and riot while many lives shatter by daybreak.