In an East Slovak town, the power station closes, leaving tall Ágoston, who has worked there his entire life, jobless. Despite being an unadventurous family man, he lets himself get talked into taking a supposedly well-paid job somewhere in the Baltics. Besides, the avid fisherman will get the chance to fulfil his dream of catching fish in the sea. But when he arrives in Latvia, he learns that the whole thing is a sham. Stuck in an unfamiliar country with empty pockets, he refuses to resign himself to his fate, setting out on a journey full of bizarre incidents and peculiar people: a female former basketball player, a pathetic, earless stuffed rabbit, a Russian parvenu and his plasticized wife. Finally, Ágoston makes it to the sea, at its furthest reaches. Waves spread over the sand, and retreat slowly.