Marlena de Blasi's new novel is dedicated to the life story of three generations of the Count Czartoryski family. Krakow palaces and cathedrals, Parisian hotels, a Catholic monastery in the south of France and a modest Norman village - this is the backdrop against which the events of the lives of the main characters unfold. An illegitimate girl, the scion of an aristocratic family, given to be raised in a monastery, sets off on a journey through occupied France in search of her mother, encountering both human baseness and examples of true nobility and high spirit along the way.