Balázs Bölkény

Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.

In the cruel world of Hungarian folk tales, everything smells of blood and gunpowder. The three sons of a poor man return home to their father after ten years of absence. But the kind-hearted shepherd, the ruthless outlaw and the recently discharged officer have no idea that terrible danger awaits them at the site of their childhood. Their father has made a pact with the devil: in exchange for wealth beyond imagination, he has sold one of their souls to the lord of hell. And the devil always comes to collect...

The story takes place on Valentine's Day in no man's land, one of the craziest days of the century, when everything is turned upside down, the turn of seemingly random events slowly connecting together.

Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.