The story of two sisters growing up in Poland during World War Two, and of a secret which stays hidden for nearly seventy years.
Tessa, a music teacher who’s on long-term sick leave because of stress, arrives on a visit to Warsaw with her grandmother, Anna
The present connects with the past, as Anna and Tessa’s journey of self-discovery in Warsaw is mirrored by the story of Anna and her sister Felicja, and their childhood in a small village in Eastern Poland.
The lives of the two girls are overshadowed by the arrival of war.
Both girls fall in love - but both fall for men in circumstances which make happiness impossible.
After experiencing the horrors of occupation, the sisters find themselves in Warsaw in the summer of 1944 – at one of the most decisive and tragic moments in the city’s long history.
Finally, past and present come together as Anna’s secret, of survival and re-birth, is revealed.