Miria, an antique dealer from Nuremberg, after returning from a trip to Israel, wakes up every morning from a nightmare that ends with the death of Jesus on the cross. She feels all the pain and suffering that happened to him. Because she can only ever remember the crucifixion scene, but not what happened before it, and because the permanent emotional stress associated with it affects her life, she seeks professional help, and this sets in motion a chain of events that drives her ceaselessly toward an unknown goal. The path to that goal takes her all the way to the Vatican but also into the memories of a young woman named Miriam, who lived in Christ's time and will later be called Mary Magdalene.