Gergely Péterfy’s young adult novel, published by Kalligram in 2012, is not about us Hungarians, despite all our optimistic expectations and its subtitle. At the time of the novel’s events, Pannonia is not yet a region inhabited by Hungarians, but rather a province of the vast Western Roman Empire, crisscrossed by barbarian hordes. The narrated events would occur sometime around the 440s, as according to the text, the characters live to see the day “when the Romans abandoned Pannonia.” (235.) At this time, Flavius Aëtius, magister utriusque militiæ, is no longer able to exercise his power practically in Pannonia, Africa, and Britannia. The novel is a mystical fairy tale with Thracian sorcerers, traveling actors, and beings with extraordinary abilities, who existed not in a past that occurred and can be narrated, but in a dreamlike past.