Julius Schmitke is a wind turbine engineer of few words employed by a German power company. His life proceeds quietly until he is invited to Crimeleva, a small and mysterious town in the Ore Mountains in the Czech Republic, to repair an apparently unrecoverable turbine. Soon Schmitke will have to deal with the seemingly benevolent inhabitants of the town and with an even more mysterious creature of the woods: two experiences that will turn him into a different person.