A community bound by a terrible secret . . . and an extraordinary sacrifice to save a child.
Polish-born Halina Shore is a forensic dentist working in Sydney. Her mother has just died, and while going through her mother's papers she comes across a letter from a woman she has never heard of, asking about a strange child. Intrigued, Halina sets out to learn more. Meanwhile, a war crimes tribunal is about to undertake an investigation into a mass grave in Poland, believed to be the site of the massacre of the entire Jewish population of a village during the war. Halina is asked to assist.
As Halina's story unfolds, she must confront not only the grimmest of evils, but the truth about her own past. And that the human spirit is a far bolder and more courageous thing than she could ever have imagined . . .
