About the book: year / Paris, 1944. A young woman is forced onto a train bound for Auschwitz. In desperation, she entrusts the most precious thing she has to a stranger, leaving herself for consolation only hope and a dream that is unlikely to come true. Santa Cruz, 1953. Jean-Luc is a man who desperately wants to hide from his past. But the scar on his face is an eternal reminder of the cost at which he managed to survive in Nazi-occupied France. When the shadows of the past decide to remind themselves, his new happy life collapses. And now Jean-Luc has no choice but to face the nightmares of his memory and again make a choice that will change not only himself, but also the fates of those dear to him. On the very platform from which the death trains left, two destinies will intertwine, and the choices everyone makes will change the future in ways no one could have imagined.