Hundreds of years separate the familes but their fears are similar when their lives are torn apart in changing times of violence and hate. They seek a refuge and dream of peace and a new beginning.
The cave provides shelter and an inspiration.
Nok, the last survivor of an early Stone-Age people and pregnant Meera, an outcast from a newer race, are hunted.
Roman settlers, Marcus, Flavia and son Octavian, caught in a tribal uprising in Germania Magna. The gypsy Lilli and criminal Wolf, escaping a Todesmarsch column, and academics, Bernd, Anna and baby Daniel fleeing across the East German border to freedom, all find the sanctuay of the cave and leave a PROOF OF PASSING unknowingly inspiring generations to come.