A screwup angel is exiled from the Heaven down to Earth, incarnated as a beggar.
Basado en hechos verídicos, este thriller narra una serie de crímenes que ocurrieron en Noviembre de 1989: las víctimas de los llamados "Asesinos de Orlik" fueron encontradas en el fondo de un lago en Bohemia. Tres hombres de negocios tratan de obtener una auténtica fortuna, para lo que han de cometer cuatro asesinatos. Uno de sus objetivos será destrozado por un paquete-bomba, otro tiroteado en su propia casa...
Soviet engineer Kuznecov is coming to Prague as an expert on work with the tunneling shield in construction of the metro. He is returning after more than thirty years. In May 1945 as a young soldier in the Red Army he was seriously injured in the liberation of Prague and while recovering experienced a great love with a young teacher called Vera.
There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife's family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But the house is to be demolished. They have to stop it. And the only way is to drown Dr. Mrácek, who is responsible for the demolition. But he falls in love with Wassermann's niece Jana. He changes to fish, is mistaken for water spirit from Germany, is drowned and revived again. The other problem is the flour with ears... and so on...