This book is a legend even for those who haven't read it. It is a symbol of something that is itself a symbol. Uz Bence is a very special being who embodies and represents everything that people think about Székely resilience, cunning, mentality and attitude. Each chapter of the novel is an episode from the life of Uz Bence, the mountain shepherd. This twisted-minded Székely gobé, who, however, has not only his mind, but also his heart in the right place, is a real national hero who embodies the destiny of the Székely people. His amusing incidents with policemen and tourists, city hunters and tax collectors, or his moving stories with fallen people are all additions to the folk-characteristic picture of the Székely people struggling in the grip of minority fate. The background of these sweet and sour tales is the snowy wild forest, where loves, tragedies, and a thousand changes in life take place. This is Uz Bence's empire, every corner of which he knows like the back of his hand, he breathes with this landscape, grows out of it, and lives not only in it, but with it. Laughable adventures, delicious Székely dialect, effective language turns, captivating landscape descriptions, and sometimes a ballad tone characterize the narrative series, which comes from the pen of a writer who is himself a native of the Székely people and a lover of nature, of nature, which has harsh but just laws. and eternal, just like the figure of Uz Bence. Bence cannot perish, because he loves everything: people, wild animals, the forest, the stars, the moon and God himself. Especially God.