Romania, 1989. People live in constant fear - the leader is a dictator, the secret police of the Securitate are watching everyone, and any actions against the authorities can be punished. Reading forbidden books, watching forbidden movies, listening to forbidden music is a serious crime. And the most dangerous thing here is to write. That's just for Ilana there is nothing more exciting than inventing stories and writing them down in a homemade book. There are always enough plots: you can retell an incident at school, adult conversations or a favorite fairy tale about a cunning princess.But one day Ilana's uncle Andrey, a poet who published an anti-government poem, disappears. Ilana's parents understand that trouble can happen. And they hide her in a remote village in the mountains, with her grandparents, whom she has never seen in her life. She would be safe there, away from the city, where anyone could turn out to be a spy and informer to the Securitate. But when the enemy is everywhere, it's impossible to hide... Jessica Kasper Kramer's incredible debut novel shows the terrible and disturbing period of the Romanian dictatorship on the eve of the overthrow of the regime through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl.For middle and high school age.