At the center of this inexhaustible and indescribable novel is the city of Baku. Beginning in the 1970s and interwoven with autobiographical elements, Goldstein weaves an endless network of stories around this fascinating city by the Caspian Sea, stretching all the way to his experiences as an immigrant in Israel at the beginning of this millennium. He narrates the Jewish fate in the Levant and in Europe, as well as the intertwining of Jews, Muslims, and Christians, who sometimes live peacefully side by side and at other times engage in frenzied battles of robbery and murder. Adventurers, poets, monks, murderers, bullfighters, gladiators, women, girlfriends, and promiscuous characters form a grandiose arabesque mosaic that captivates the reader within just a few pages with its highly idiosyncratic, powerful, and hypnotic tone of pathos, sarcasm, hymn, and sober report.