Austrian photographer Karl-Josef Zumbrunnen comes to Ukraine to find himself and his purpose. On his bizarre journey, he is accompanied by translator Roma Voronich, her almost adult daughter and poet husband, Professor Doctor, two strippers, and a music video director. Arriving at a very strange Carpathian hotela former weather stationthe group finds itself on the verge of a mystical otherworld. The world of the novel is a carnival of Hutsul folklore, late 1990s culture, mafi...
