In 1950s communist Prague, talented math student Adam Hofmann embarks on a quest to find the legendary Golem. It all starts when he visits an antiquarian bookshop and discovers a photograph showing an old hotel with a group of people and a mysterious giant figure. He also meets mysterious Mr. Moller, who claims to know the secret of bringing the Golem to life with a mathematical formula known as the „Shem“ and manipulates Adam into miscalculating the formula.
Adam locates the abandoned Golem Hotel, where he discovers an enormous figure beneath the floorboards. However, the Golem that awakens with the wrongly calculated Shem is not a loyal servant, but a monstrous and aggressive colossus. The Golem—now called Melog—grows into a massive entity that controls the entire city, with its hotel transforming into the oppressive Melog Grandhotel. The citizens drawn to this new clay empire find themselves trapped, forced to praise the Melog. Adam eventually confronts Mr. Moller, the mastermind behind the Melog’s rise to power, and stops the hidden machine that fuels the Melog Grandhotel’s growth.
As rain begins to fall, the colossal clay structure collapses, freeing the citizens from their clay prison. The slaves become free people once again, though tainted by what they have been through. The storm has passed, and the future looks bright and optimistic, however the despotic clay could be waiting to take over again, if people give up control of their minds.
The development of the film was supported by the National Recovery Plan through the Creative Vouchers program and is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU. This support enables the development of animation and technology tests, create the animatic, work on the design development and finalize the film script.
