During a persecution against 'The Way' around 34 A.D. a Jerusalem citizen called Sem wants to leave his past behind and moves to another country, only to find out that an important piece of that past literally awaits him there.

After the Germans flooded large parts of The Netherlands towards the end of WWII, the Brouwer family find themselves trapped in their attic surrounded by water. With their rations dwindling, tensions arise within the household.