The foothills of the White Carpathians, the vast area between their ridge and the Olšava stream in the southeastern part of Moravia, the buffer border zone between Slovakia (before 1918, Upper Hungary) and Moravia, did not offer many hopes for a peaceful life. And right here, to the region where bread ended and stones began, we will follow mysterious paths. We will meet Governor Šarovec, who at the head of the Slovak regiment defended this region against the Bočkaj hordes, and the Moravian Hussites, who fought the last battle with Sigismund's troops here. On a pilgrimage to St. Antonínka, we will admire the beauty of Slovakian costumes and listen to stories about the ghost of the unfortunate Líza while tasting wine in the Blatnice vineyards. We will visit Nivnica, where they keep a bell with a mysterious inscription, the Moravian Troy, as Bánov was once called by archaeologists, and we will follow the footsteps of the story of the hermit Jan, whose memory is commemorated near Bystřice pod Lopeníek by two chapels and the torment of God. In Moravské Kopanice, we will look into the dwelling of the most famous Žitkov goddess Pagáčena and climb to Velká Javořina, a mountain associated with the tradition of Czech-Slovak reciprocity, but also a refuge for bandits who hid their treasures in the abandoned rocks of the mountain massif. And we will also visit the Slovak football club; we will walk through Bošácká dolina to Zemanské Podhradí. The writer Alois Jirásek stayed at the rectory there as a guest of the parish priest Jozef Ľudovít Holuby, when he was collecting material for his novel Brotherhood, and we will remind you that the park of the local castle was the place of love encounters between the poet and creator of literary Slovak Ľudovít Štúr and Countess Adela Ostrolúcká. And the most mysterious path will take us almost to Váh, to Trenčanské Bohuslavice, where in the former castle chapel we will look into the face of a mummy from the Roman catacombs...