A hundred-year-old church that periodically emerges only to be submerged again by the waters of a huge reservoir: this is the spot where Father Zlatan is attempting to organize a gathering of the surviving, globally-scattered descendants of the sunken village. An arrogant surgeon and politician, a vicar who is also an opera singer, a famous international journalist an an Italian student endure significant vicissitudes of life, from Rome to Vienna and Kandahar, only to discover it is fate that leads them bac