A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist party, a woman who is dying of tuberculosis and an astronomer who sings in a punk band.
In the fields of Cserefa the pig of a miner digs up red earth. Szántó discovers, that the hill hides good quality bauxite, suitable for open cast mining. First he is laughed at, later silenced, because opening of a mine would hurt the interests of the "water lobby" and the tourist industry.
