 The myth of the sunken city of Atlantis is the focus of an imaginary journey through the mind of the renowned professor Neuffer. He finds himself rapt in a vision which occurs as the autumn mists descend upon the Allgaeu mountains: the mystical island of Atlantis never sunk at all, on the contrary, the sinking of the world s oceans has meant that the island is now where nobody ever imagined it could be-on the "roof of the world"-in the Himalayas. Neuffer and Nele, a young woman, set off to Tibet in search of the land of dreams...