The large-scale historical novel "Egri csillagok" ("Stars of Eger") Géza Gárdonyi is a required reading in any Hungarian primary school. This novel was the base for the monumental film directed by Zoltán Várkonyi featuring the greatest Hungarian actors of that time. We are in mid- 1500s Hungary. The country is ravaged by raiding Turkish troops, that are robbing, looting, and hunting for slaves. Gergely Bornemisza and Éva Cecey are still children when they fall into the hands of Jumurdzsák, a Turkish military commander who wants to sell his valuable prisoners on an Eastern slaves market. However, the children manage to escaped, and carry with them a precious talisman of their superstitious kidnapper. The Turkish master has no more luck, while the brave little boy Gergely Bornemisza becomes lucky.