Vilém used to be a Jesuit and worked as a bishop's secretary. He was sent to the North years ago to investigate a dark case. And he already stayed in the north, becoming a rural priest and teacher. In the hungry winter months, he hunted the lord's game and, like a good poacher, he grew a beard. He celebrated his fiftieth birthday a month ago... In the free continuation of Horníčk's Witcher, not only Vilém appears on the scene, but also the invincible Dr. Šulc, the ever-present secret police and, above all, a new messed-up case that takes us straight from the Czech Kingdom to revolutionary Paris.