Rediscovering Central and Eastern Europe is the common thread. It shows how almost every person, every institution, every group or class had to redefine themselves after the fall of the Berlin Wall, often with bizarre consequences. With gypsy wisdom, writer and columnist Jaap Scholten, who lives in Hungary, travels east through Hungary, Transylvania, Romania, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria. He encounters a slowly disappearing world and gathers together the stories and myths like no other.