Václav Hrabánek was originally an advocate and owner of a banking house, he was forced by communism to become a driver after February 1948, later a forest worker and taxi driver, before coming to find calm and peace in an valley in a three hundred years old water mill. Here he has lived for thirty years with his wife without electricity, hot water and other modern achievements, surrounded by deep forest and a herd of horses. With love and reverence he reconstructed the mill, which has thanks to his work become an architectonic monument.

Václav Hrabánek lead by the need to finish the interior of the mill in the traditional manner, a corner with images and paintings, learned the traditional technique of painting on glass and his renown as the only living artist using this technique soon went beyond the frontiers of his forest. His images now decorated local chapels and churches, but can be also seen in museums and private collections.

From the traditional imagery of Saints, V.Hrabánek moved on to more complex scenes, narrative compositions with many personages and naive paraphrases of renowned paintings.

He had to leave his "paradise" recently because of his age, problems with the life at such a lost place without modern achievements and move into a small house in Kašperské hory, the film takes in the melancholy of the story.