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This story, shrouded in the grey gloom of antiquity, is set in the fifth century AD. All of Europe is shaking from the attacks of the Huns. Young men from a Polian tribe set out to find their brides, who have been kidnapped during a Hun raid on their village. As legionnaires, they go through the crucible of several wars in the vast expanses of Byzantium, searching for traces of the girls, and finally end up in the capital of the Christian world, Constantinople. The protagonist Viter is baptised under the name Leonidas and makes a fantastic career from a simple legionnaire to the commander (archon) of the personal guard of Empress Eudocia (401-460). He tells all this to the historian, diplomat, and writer Prisk. The Glades, led by Wind, go through a dizzying adventure that unfolds against the backdrop of the real events of the empress's life. The boys' main goal is to find the missing girls. Finally, they seem to have found the trail and even found one girl, but the empress's death dashes their dreams. And everything has to start all over again...