A magical novel about friendship, love, farewell, and the insatiable longing for another life. Eliza and Ian, Rebeka and Lukas Elfman come from Petrzalka, the monstrous concrete housing estate near Bratislava. Every day, however, the four friends cross the Danube Bridge to sit in Café Hyena, to drink, discuss, write, and dream. They reinvent themselves, creating their own place that is free from the ghosts of the past and the depressions of the present. And even though this self-made cosmos is on the verge of breaking apart, as Elza falls in love with the dancer Kalisto Tanzi, Elfman flees from Bratislava, and Rebeka ends up in a psychiatric hospital, none of them gives up the search for happiness. Because the world created in Café Hyena remains a promise.