The story is set in the 17th century, and we follow the life of the Johan Ot, who moves from the Germany to Slovene with the desire for a new beginning. Because of his interests and thinking, he is a very suspicious foreigner. The main themes of the story are the inquisition, witch-haunting, plague, corruption ... and because this is a modernist (late modernism) novel, the story is metaphorical and open to various interpretations of the content.