A book published in 2006 that is in fact a collection of small essays written by Vintila in the 2000s (and some possibly from the 90s as well). We're talking about pre-EU Romania, a place of wonder and awe, where people were "pure", almost untained by "foreign" values. Vintila mixes stories from his extensive anthropological travels, with philosophical pieces (published in Dilema Veche, from what I can tell) on religion, traditionalism, family, identity, nostalgia, workers & peasants, communism & capitalism, and the hottest topic of 2016: The Transition. Some would argue that we're still transitioning today -which makes the book as relevant today as it did when it was written.