In a desolate and colorless landscape stands a once grand, now crumbling and dilapidated bathhouse, run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife and their son Anton, who does all the work. He is lonely and unsophisticated. Citizens go to the bathhouse to escape their dreary lives. Eva goes to the bathhouse to bathe with her father, and Anton falls in love with her.
Eva and her father lose their home and stay at the bathhouse for a while, until bits of the ceiling fall on the old man and he dies. Can Anton gain her forgiveness and get the bathhouse through a rigorous government inspection?
Waiting out there somewhere is the paradise isle of Tuvalu.
