Undermajordomo Minor

It's an upside-down fairytale complete with a simple boy from a modest village wishing that “something would happen” and finding himself sent off to work in a dark and dusty castle.

He promptly falls in love with a girl in the nearby village while a Pythonesque war wages in the hills nearby. There's also a giant hole, a mad baron, a family of cons and pickpockets and an errant salami. All with the same bits of wry deWitt dialogue that so charmed me with his earlier Sisters Brothers.

And while many somethings happen, I'm still not sure what, if anything, has transpired.