Peter Náda's novel leads to the Hungary of the Stalin era and the show processes, but he treats time not according to political thought schemes, but from a children's perspective. A little boy reports of the terror of the totalitarian outside world in which his father is entangled, the two-thousand-year history of Judaism told him by his grandfather, and the mythical universe of his childhood. Nádas uses the literary possibilities of this by no means naive point of view to illustrate the whole extent of the psychic scandal of those years.