Evelin lives with her sister Alice and her Father in an isolated cottage along the river. Since her mother's passing no one has ever crossed the gate of their property. Nobody has left or entered. They live in world in which every sign of life has to be suppressed and inhibited. Life is a source of pain, attachments and affections induce sorrow and this evil has to be avoided. But now something new has started to grow inside Evelin. Her body has awaken and has no intention to be bunked down again. In the meantime the blossoming spring has started and a young man, called by everyone the idiot, has decided to abandon his land, looking for the woman he met in his dreams.