Before the flood, a foreigner arrives in a city where the inhabitants indulge in drink, lust, looting and torture. Bewitched by a magician, he looks in vain for an ideal girl before raising the wrath of the gods.
Axel, the magician, raises a boy into adulthood. When Axel dies, it's the young man - son of a murderer, and well tutored by a magician - to keep on the tradition of guarding the Daughter of the Golem.
The film tells the story of three couples on the road between the Atlantic coast and the Northwest Territories in Canada.