Even if you know the map of modern Europe well, you will not find the Grand Duchy of Severingia on it. Nevertheless, such a country exists... or could exist. Here, in this non-existent country, located somewhere “at the quiet crossroads” of Europe, between Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg, ghosts in love take on flesh and the dead communicate with the living by telephone ; here live an exclusively modern man from the century before last, Marten Saba, and a completely non-modern man out of time, Tikhonya; here, entering an ordinary cafe, you can fall into the clutches of twilight demons, and if you fall into the Royal Gardens during a shootout, you can emerge from them as a princess of exotic Kufang; in an ordinary boarding house for the elderly, here you can find grandmothers-hackers and meet Blue Dragons right on the street...