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In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust and despite the inhospitability of the villagers settle there as woodcutters Tomas is churlish - taciturn at the best of times He digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut so they have their own little island kingdom Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why, all his life they've moved from place to place, or why his father carries a long battered box everywhere they go, and why he is forbidden to know its mysterious contents But when a band of gypsies comes to the village Peter's drab existence is turned upside down