Set in Warsaw during WWII, the novel followsElizabetta who lives adjacent to the Ghetto where thousands of Jews are trapped. With Sara, a nurse, the young girl enters the Ghetto and helps prepare children to be smuggled out. Roman Gorka, a passionate youth in the resistance there, falls in love with Elizabetta. The details of German brutality are etched here clearly. The war years are hard on both Elizbetta and Ronan, but ultimately they will reunite in a Poland now dominated by the USSR. This is a good book to educate young people with. As the author points out, the ignorance among young-adult American is staggering: in one recent poll nearly two-thirds did not know that six million Jews died during the war, and over ten percent believed Jews had caused the Holocaust.