The work is dedicated to Dag Hammarskjöld, the Swedish diplomat who was secretary of the UN in the 1960s. Hammarskjöld was remarkable as a personally mysterious person of great spiritual depth and with high-minded ideals: he took an interest in the oppressed peoples of Africa, did all he could to bring agreement and peaceful co-existence among them. But it was in African skies that his aircraft Albertina was blown up in 1961. Dag and his fifteen young followers perished. The introduction to the novel, where Dag’s story is told, tells us: ‘In general, the story is more real than reality. And here we should note the real truth, which is that Dag and his friends are alive and are still carrying on with their cause, albeit secretly.’ The novel’s action is driven by the order of great Dag, who does not appear in person. Only once are we shown a secret meeting of its members and leaders on an inaccessible African mountain. Dag is the patron and inspiration of the order, the ‘prince of peace’, but still does not appear. The peculiarity of the order is that, as well as human beings, animals and fantastic beings also appear as its members. In addition, some people may not even know that they are members of the order. Anyone who serves the same ideals as the order is a member and acts individually. The order has the secret of the ‘art of reconciliation’ and passes it on to its members. All over the word, but especially in bloody conflict zones, it has set up ‘schools of the art of reconciliation’, in which it teaches chosen persons. Most important are those who have themselves suffered from war. Reconciling two of these nations in conflict is the highest rung of the ‘art of reconciliation’. Before that stage the members have to be able to reconcile two members of the order, two human beings, two families, two streets, and so on. The interests of the order require that two dragons, Zango and Dango, be reconciled: they live in the dragons’ forest kingdom. All day they quarrel relentlessly with one another, and thus destroy living nature. The novel begins with their vicious quarrelling. The reason for this endless conflict is the lack of education of the little dragons, their senseless way of life and the dreadful boredom. Suddenly, strange beings appear in their lives: Saturn’s children, a brother and sister who systematically steal away to their mother’s world, because they are members of the order; a woman who gathers healing herbs, her friend a squirrel, a noble beaver, a little parachuting stoat, etc. Only after mutual reconciliation and after graduating from the ‘school of the art of reconciliation’, do the dragons become the being that once were representatives of their race – the Unbruised. Once upon a time the Unbruised sailed down through the air from Saturn. They were then powerful and beautiful beings: they had a third eye on their brows, as well as golden manes and wings. But because the chief mysterious law was broken, they gradually turned into dragons, and their forest kingdom was burnt down. The order now needs these two beings and they have to become great conciliators… their race and kingdom has to be resurrected. Finally, on Africa’s secret mountain they become the defenders of a mysterious palace erected by the order of great Dag. Humorous images mingle with the sad ones, realistic ones with the fantastic.