Trix Sollier has accomplished many glorious feats and no one will call him a klutz. It seems that all his dreams have come true - and you can calmly learn magic (even if the training includes washing floors and peeling potatoes). But if you have to suddenly go on New Year's Eve to the hot and exotic country of Samarshan - there’s no time for studying here! Here you need to remember everything you can and even a little more. After all, Samarshan is just a very exotic country! There the Sultan rules (some believe that he is a vizier), the Transparent God gathers an army (some are afraid that he really is a god, at least from the small ones), and local customs are colorful and spontaneity. All that remains is to rely on old friends - wandering artists, old enemies - Vitamantes, and step-relatives in lifelong exile. Because there will be many dangerous encounters - with a genie bound by moral restrictions, a sphinx - not bound by any restrictions, and desert gnomes (did you think that such things do not exist? You are mistaken!). And all because you shouldn’t trust every dragon you meet. Of course, dragons don’t know how to lie, but did that ever stop them?