In the year 45 BC, two millennia before our time. From Lake Chiemsee to the Rhön, the peoples are on the move. The Germanic Hermunduri are on the verge of capturing the Celtic city of Melkabos. The young Celtic blacksmith Mavo also seeks to take revenge on the Germans. Their prince Sokulast has kidnapped his beloved Noreya. Will he ever see her again? On Samhain, the night of the wandering ancestors, Mavo learns that nothing in the world is impossible, as a strange stranger suddenly appears, claiming to be from another time. A novel about life and death, about the culture and decline of the Celts. Exciting, mystical, humorous.