The market town of Braunschlag on the Czech border is bankrupt. Between Russian creditors and the pressure from St. Pölten, only a miracle seems to help. And that is exactly Mayor Tschach's plan. Together with his friend, the unsuccessful disco operator Pfesinger, he feigns an apparition of the Virgin Mary in order to guide masses of pilgrims to Braunschlag. At first, everything indicates that the plan will work. But increasingly the headstrong villagers begin to stand in each other's way.