The book shows a Roman boy living in Rome. It is a time-actual story with inspiration from Romany culture and Italian roman culture history. The story describes images from the life of the boy, Pontus, in todays Rome but takes the reader back on a time-travel-like adventure. Illustrations are from arts and seek the readers attention from a childs point of view. The books showing of the Romany culture explores a people group with unique way of life in today.