The first novel in Russian by the famous Canadian writer Nancy Huston is an extraordinary love story between a German woman and a Jew, burned by the Second World War. The action takes place in France, mired in another war - with Algeria. Houston talks about the problems of personal and general guilt, about the responsibility of choice. Behind the twists and turns of the classic love triangle, one can see the history of Europe in the most turbulent, most troubled times of the past century.