The novel by Aaron Appelfeld, who survived the Holocaust as a child while hiding in the forests of Ukraine, is in many ways comparable to the experiences of the writer himself. But he told his story in his memoirs, “The Story of Life,” and “Flowers of Darkness” is the story of a Jewish boy, Hugo, who lived with his parents in a small Ukrainian town, but when the Germans came and took his father away, his mother put him in the care of her school friend. Maryana. Maryana is a prostitute, lives in a brothel and hides eleven-year-old Hugo in the closet behind her room. He will have to learn and live with memories, and master a new, unfamiliar world.