This multi-faceted novel is a real gift for literature lovers. It is read in one breath - from the first page to the last, which you turn with regret. It has everything: a brilliant reconstruction of the past - and quite recognizable collisions of our time. The setting is the modest village of La Bastide in the foothills of the Pyrenees, where the villa of the Roman poet Cassius was once located. The story of his life, or rather the best part of it, is a love story for the young patrician Tacita, who, although she rejected his feelings, did it contrary to the dictates of her heart... And the end to this piercing, full of drama story will be set only after two and a half thousand years - when during the excavations of the villa a certain object is accidentally discovered, with the help of which another heroine of the novel - the young archaeologist Antonia Hunt - will be able to solve the riddle left by Cassius: “In poculo veritas” - “The truth is in the cup.”