A bug fumigator with schizophrenic tendencies, Angel is hired to clear up the wood lice infecting a wine-growing district. Believing himself to be half-human, half-divine, and governed by heavenly instructions only he hears, Angel encounters two women of wildly opposing character. Loving them both, he must finally choose between his two states of being and face up to the terrible possibility that instead of divine, he may be simply insane. In a nominally realist, rural setting, Medem creates an atmosphere of fantasy and poetry in which wild boars are attracted by female smells and widowers search for their dead, departed lovers among the stars. Against this magical backdrop, Medem explores an unusual man’s request for transcendence, his search for an elusive state of calm and inner peace.