One of the best Jacek Dukaj?s writings, popularized by a based upon it short animated movie by Tomek Bagiński with the same title. The movie has received a nomination to the Academy Award ? Oscar (2003), and the publicity accompanying this event was the reason why Jacek Dukaj was no longer associated to his audacious writing debut with The Golden Galley and at least until the loud publication of the monumental Ice, everyone knew him as an author of the filmed Cathedral. Long before the making of the movie, the novelette was awarded the first Zajdel Award of the author (after his six other nominations). The novelette was first published in the collection In the lands of the unbelievers prized with three other Polish SF awards.