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In a small town in Soviet Poland, Jan Mendyk has returned from a war no one would believe he fought. Now, he returns to his home town, Ostoja, a sleepy place by the sea, and finds that this war has followed him home, only on a different front. Marcel, a young man from Jan’s childhood, has found himself caught up in a sweeping faerie plot to change the world, with his home at the center. These two people with entwined paths will come to realize how similar and different they are, as Ostoja is put on a crash course for magical reckoning.