After the death of his father, Robby Duray's faith is put to the test when he is seduced into the corrupt world of organized crime, extortion and violence; masked in the form of an underground cult threatening to take over the world.

In southern Moravia, in the native village of Velka Samota, a ministry official returns from Prague to lift the declining JZD he helped establish.

The happenings in a shoe factory serve as a not very thinly veiled examination of the pros and cons of both socialism and democracy.