A hundred-year-old church that regularly emerges only to be submerged again by the waters of a huge dam is the venue, where Father Zlatan is trying to organize a gathering of the surviving descendants of the sunken village scattered all over the world. An arrogant politician surgeon, a vicar, who is also an operetta singer, a woman, who has become a famous international journalist, and an Italian student endure significant vicissitudes, from Rome to Kandahar via Vienna, only to discover it is fate that leads them back to their predecessors’ roots.