sentences:  The main character of the novel is the wife of a shepherd living in the Moldavian village of Măgura Tarcăului, Vitoria Lipan, which has a premonition that her husband, Nechifor, on a trip to buy a new flock in the town of Dorna, has died.Her premonitions are dismissed by the village's priest and by the prefect of the county, but for Vitoria the archaic symbols and superstitions of the peasant world are more trustworthy than the books of the priests or the science of the government's officials.She calls home her son, Gheorghiţă, who was also on business in Jijia village where he waited for news from his father to pay some debts, and together they embark on a mythical journey at the end of which they find Nechifor's dead body and take their revenge on the thieves who killed him.