Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.

A farming village in the mountains is developing into a fitness center thanks to word of mouth. Young and old, pretty and not so pretty, are making pilgrimages into nature to experience the new "well of health"...

While recuperating in a sanatorium in the mountains, a young boy becomes very close friends with an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy to get to know his mother, the wife of an older diplomat. When the boy realises the baron’s intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and depressed.