March 19, 1848, Great-grandmother. That evening, three dormitory students learn that the revolution has won in Pest. The previously calm life of the good friends is turned upside down. They live through historical times, they become adults in seconds: they play politics, work, fight, love, hug and kill.
However, the months of the glorious Union and enthusiasm are quickly passing away, and the time of the thieves is coming in Transylvania, the age of months of cruel carnage, when, at the pernicious words of their Viennese masters, the tiny, small villains who have risen from nothing grow into huge thugs, followed by tens and tens of thousands of enraged Transylvanian Romanians putting them on a pitchfork, to arrange a cruel bloodbath wherever they go.
Vilmos Gál's new, fast-paced historical adventure novel takes the reader to Transylvania again after the Báthory volumes, but the Polish thread cannot be left out here either: our protagonists fight for a free life and survival in the army of their brilliant commander, Apó Bem. The blood sacrifice is huge, this story commemorates the ten thousand Hungarians who were martyred in 1848-1849.