Alternative history, familiar and unfamiliar events, fancifully distorted by fantasy... A world where any popular belief becomes reality... Here, along the muddy roads of medieval Germany - almost not “alternative” - landsknechts and comedians, monks and witches, saints and sinners, living and dead. They all try to go their own way, and they all end up on the same road. The novel is structured as a medieval mystery unfolding in almost real historical and geographical settings. The main character is a monk, whom the free-thinking student Balthasar Fichtele nicknamed the Obscurantist. Will he find his way, will he meet the One to whom he has been walking all his life?