A novel of remembrance with narrative power. A celebration is taking place in Fogarasch, a small town in the heart of Transylvania. The friends of the 16-year-old first-person narrator gather at his parents' house for a dance tea. It is meant to be a celebration for the end of school, but it becomes a farewell forever. For on that August 23, 1944, Romania, allied with Hitler, switches sides and joins the Allies. The centuries-long cultivated coexistence of Romanians, Hungarians, and Germans comes to an end. Eginald Schlattner's wonderful novel resurrects a world that defies dangers - cheerful and melancholic, rich in details and subtle irony, shifting between the real and the unreal, captured in a tone of enchanting sensuality.