Diane is a feisty, sexy young American woman deeply suspicious of all men. She herself can handle them easily, since she is equally attracted to women, but when she befriends Katya she tries to protect her innocent friend from the machinations of predatory males, including Franz, making Katya’s trusting the man she loves more difficult.

Katya is an innocent girl who encounters in Majorca cynical people that make it difficult to know whom to trust. She wants to be an artist but finds her journey made difficult by establishment people like Londo and Toom, until she finally stands up for herself and accepts the love of Franz against the world.

Londo is an old genius artist with a deep hatred of mankind, a hatred which manifests itself in a series of paintings of The Creation, in which he has an unusual tradition, with his muses, of dramatizing the horror of the creation of man. Katya has to fight this
tradition - and barely survives.

Although a novelist and a cynic, when he arrives in the little village as Director of his Maya Institute of the Arts, Toom finds himself forced to represent the establishment world against the world of the hippies.

Toom is continually in conflict between what he shows to the world and what he lets slip when his guard is down - his true feelings.

Wilkie is another genius, a prolific author who has a wonderful theory about genius, energy cycles, and cycle-peak experiences. He preaches this theory on all occasions, which leads to many comic consequences.

Franz is the hippest of hippies, a wanderer and artist of randomness, who immediately sees in Katya a purity that he had thought all humans had lost. He tries to protect her from the predatory world and finds himself in love, choosing to fight the establishment stacked against him to be with her