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A novel about an event that took place in 1352 that would have been included in school textbooks in any other country: a combined Polish-Hungarian army, reinforced by troops from France and Italy, suffered a crushing defeat near the town of Belz (now Lviv Oblast). The garrison of Belz consisted of five hundred men, most of whom were militiamen - townspeople and peasants from the surrounding villages. This victory played a decisive role in ensuring that the Ukrainian people did not disappear from the face of the earth.

Even professional historians know little about the war for independence waged by the Galicia-Volyn state in 1340-1384 against a coalition of countries: Hungary (which was five times larger than today), the Kingdom of Poland, and the principalities of Masovia and Silesia.

And this is not surprising, our chronicles have not survived, only some treaties. There are few sources from both our enemies and neutral states. The author, relying mainly on Italian and Hungarian sources, tried to create a reconstruction of one of the culminating events of this war - the siege of Belz.