1954, Charlotte lives in New York with her teenage daughter. She is happy in her own way - a quiet measured life, work in a publishing house. They came to America almost ten years ago, after their release from a concentration camp. But all these years, Charlotte was afraid that the past would one day overtake her. And it happened. A letter from a man she wanted to forget brought her back to military Paris, to the bookstore where she worked during the occupation. It brought them back to those dangerous and complicated relationships that pushed them and their daughter to the very edge of the abyss, which they escaped only by a miracle.In this addictive story about survival, loyalty and love, everything turns out to be not as it seems at first.