The earth knows everything. With a cool gaze that penetrates through time, it sees all that happens upon it. It knows the child Josef Magnor, who tastes the sausage soup in October 1906 and never forgets it. Josef, who ends up in the mud of the trenches in France and later in the bed of the young Caroline. To whom this earth offers a hiding place in the Silesian mine for years after he causes a tragedy out of jealousy. The earth knows Nikodem, Josef's great-grandson. Nikodem, who moves in with his lover but cannot let go of his wife and daughter, nor the beautiful house he built as a sought-after architect of the new Poland - everything slips away from him, even the lover. What will he be able to save? The earth knows the end; it remains cruelly cold. Szczepan Twardoch lets the earth tell the story itself - the dragon that spits out humanity and swallows it back again.