Amazing novel. A novel in which magical realism, parable and fairy tale for adults are intertwined into an unusually colorful whole, bizarre, like the folk culture of Brazil itself. New times have come to San Salvador de Bahia? It was not. No pragmatism and progress have power over the city, where love and magic reigned from time immemorial. Art locked in the walls of museums and galleries? Here's more. Art is free while the souls of its creators are free! Is the myth dead? No and no again. Because a statue of an Afro-Christian saint is still able to come to life, escape from an academic exhibition and begin a journey through Bahia - a wonderful journey that will change the fate of many people! The statue of St. Barbara, brought from the village church to the exhibition, comes to life and begins to actively interfere in the life of the Bayans; "puts things in order" in their family life, settles quarrels, helps triumph of love and justice; puts hypocrisy and sanctimony to shame...