Swiss mountains of Davos. International sanatorium "Berghof" for tuberculosis patients, almost cut off from the rest of the world. Years before the First World War. The forced inhabitants of the Berghof - Germans and Russians, Italians, Dutch and English - create here their slow, half-asleep rhythm of life, which has nothing in common with the bustle below. Walking in the mountains and gluttony, love affairs and endless conversations on philosophical, scientific and other “abstract” topics - everything leads them to a loss of sense of time, blissful contemplation of the surrounding nature and dolce far niente - sweet idleness. What is this? The inevitable consequences of illness or an attempt to escape reality into passive enjoyment of life?..