January 2003 and the Berest family receive a mysterious postcard. On one side is the Opera Garnier, on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz. Years later, Anne sought to find the truth behind the postcard. She journeys 100 years into the past, tracing the lives of her ancestors from their flight from Russia following the revolution, their journey to Latvia, Palestine, and Paris, the war and its aftermath. A moving novel based on a true story.