"How does being an emigrant, fragile from injuries, meet the spirit of the historical injuries of the place. This is Christina Viragh's big question. This is the most peculiar writer's question, as far as I know, no one else has asked him before. How one century turns into another, and how someone passes on the spirit of the place, or how the spirit of the place terrifies someone after hundreds of years. Where does he live, what is the spirit of the place made of? And if one half is Hungarian and the other is Swiss German or Hottentot, it's actually a secondary circumstance. After all, the spirit of the place works independently of you." Péter Nádas

A single place, its inhabitants and its secrets for six centuries, this is the subject of Christina Viragh's novel, which she portrays with humor and deep compassion.