It is the end of summer in 1989. Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at a small train station in the Sudetenland, a small abandoned community in the middle of the mountains. He is a loner who prefers old timetables to people and finds the solitude of the station quiet and relaxing - except when the fog comes. Because then he starts hallucinating, seeing ghosts as well as shadows from the dark past of this area, where brutal revenge was taken on the German population after World War II. Alois can't get rid of these nightmares and through the intervention of Wachek, a railroad employee who wants to deprive Alois of his job, one day he ends up in a sanatorium. There he meets "the mute": A mysterious man who carries an old photograph and who has been arrested by the police after crossing the border. Not even electric shocks make him talk, and the police can't figure out why he came to Sudetenland or what he was looking for. One day he takes his chance and escapes into the woods. Alois gets better and is allowed to leave the sanatorium. But things behind the walls of the asylum have changed. The Berlin walls and the Communist regime in the Czech Republic have fallen. Alois doesn't know what to do, because he has neither a job nor a place to live. He decides to ask for help at Prague's main train station. There he meets the love of his life: Květa, the toilet lady. He then returns to the mountains to meet "the mute" and to defeat the ghosts that have haunted him for so long.