After the death of his father, Geronimo Frank, the scion of a wealthy Austrian banking family, decides to break from his family's traditions and move to live on a small island in the Adriatic Islands, and to reopen the large store there. Despite the tragic legend associated with the marriage of the previous store owner, which befell the new owner, He succeeds in preparing for marriage to the most beautiful girl on the island, Alia Aymar. During the preparation for this legendary wedding, Rino Kubita, the young revolutionary and son of the island's popular hero, becomes aware of the existence of arrangements for an Austrian invasion of this island, so he organizes a resistance squad to kill the invading soldiers. Between the preparations for the wedding of the century, as described by the islanders, and the fluctuating feelings of Alia Emar, who loves music, and the anticipation of some of the islanders for the retaliatory invasion of the dead soldiers, Scarmita narrates in his charming and sarcastic style about the preparation of an entire continent for world war, and about a strange asylum journey to the safe paradise, Chile.