Traces the haunted memories and mysterious visions of a troubled train dispatcher through the shifting cultural and political landscape in the waning days of the Cold War. Preferring timetables to people, Alois Nebel leads a quiet life at a remote railway station on the Czech-Slovak border - disrupted only by the fog that brings hallucinations of trains from the past - ghosts from Central Europe's dark past, ultimately sends him on a nightmarish journey.