From birth, Marietta Merz is engaged in a search for the marvellous in the everyday, a quest that leads to something more sublime than she could have imagined. A myth of transformation and the alchemy of different ways of seeing.

Honza Pernath’s life is barren. The person he loves is gone and his friends, even his dreams, say she will not return.

What links the lives of Marietta and Honza? And where will their journeys lead?