- Description
The story of the film begins in the autumn of 1989 at the Bílý Potok railway station in the Jeseníky Mountains, where Alois Nebel (Miroslav Krobot) serves as a train dispatcher. Nebel is a quiet loner who is occasionally overtaken by a strange fog. Most often he sees Dorothe (Tereza Voříšková), a victim of the forced removal of Germans after World War II. The grey days at the railway station in Bílý Potok at the end of socialism pass lazily, the switchman Wachek (Leoš Noha) together with his father (Alois Švehlík) deal with Soviet army officers.
The peaceful atmosphere is disturbed one day by Nemý (Karel Roden), who crosses the border with an axe in his hand to avenge his mother. Hallucinations eventually drive Nebel to an insane asylum and he loses his job as a train dispatcher. He heads to Prague to find another job with the railroad and finds the love of his life, the toilet attendant Květa (Marie Ludvíková), at the Main Station. Nebel decides to go back to the mountains to reunite with the Mute and fight the dark shadows of the past...