Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; six months before the split of Czechoslovakia. Despite all warnings, a young homicide detective sets on investigating a convoluted case that involves Catholic clerical elite and high-ranked agents of the former secret service.

In the 1990s post-communist Slovakia, former woods worker Miki takes his chances to start doing business at a local level and climb up the ladder to become the biggest mafia boss in the country.

During the pre-war period of 1937, young, pregnant doctor Helena arrives in the city of Svit. The real-life city was built by Jan Antonín Baťa, based on the vision of his half-brother, progressive entrepreneur Tomáš Baťa, for the employees of their factory. This utopian vision of Baťa’s serves as a backdrop for the story. Helena is the wife of a factory director in Svit. The strange discovery of a dead, intersex embryo turns the city upside down. Helena decides to find out the truth behind it, despite the revelation of a political conspiracy.