Desperately unhappy, laura has resorted to self-harming. But laura is a stravagante, somebody who can travel in time and space. When she finds her talisman, a small silver dagger, she stravagates to 16th-century fortezza...Desperately unhappy, laura has resorted to self-harming. But laura is a stravagante, somebody who can travel in time and space. When she finds her talisman, a small silver dagger, she stravagates to 16th-century fortezza, a town similar to lucca in Italy, where she meets her stravagante, who is a swordsmith.