About the book: year / During an attack on a small village, a ten-year-old boy witnesses the death of his parents. He himself miraculously manages to escape. He runs away from his pursuers. He wanders for several days without a goal. When he doesn’t have enough strength to walk, when thirst and hunger have ruined his chances of survival, he gets out onto the highway. He was found in the dust of the road and then sheltered by a blacksmith-trader. The foster parent raised the orphan as if he were his own. One problem is that the benefactor’s family is under a terrible curse, but the boy is in no way inferior in secrets to his savior.…