Holy Mount Athos is a huge repository of memories and dreams, where not only monks live, but also the souls of the dead, awaiting new incarnations. Here time is endless, unclear, intermittent, unusual for humans. There are no women in this land, and men enjoy each other.

François Augieras wanders around Mount Athos in the hope of finding the Teacher, whose call he heard, but he meets only those whom he knew and loved in previous lives. His soul is drawn to everything sacred and everything obscene that is on Athos; it rejects Christianity, but admires the splendor of Byzantine art. Having gone through purification by suffering, the hero of this book realizes his true cosmic “I”.

Never, not once in thousands of years, has the mind of a woman or a layman created anything more beautiful than Athos! But is this the same Mount Athos that can be seen on the map, or is it another one, similar in the smallest details, but different and located in the other world?