A pile of accidents, good luck and bad luck... A love story during the Holocaust... The heroine of Hanna Krall's book, Warsaw Jew Isolde Regensberg, goes to great lengths to save her arrested husband. At the last moment she gets out of Umschlagplatz, where trains leave for the concentration camps, pretends to be Polish, ends up in a Warsaw prison, then to Germany to work, escapes, returns to Warsaw, carries smuggled tobacco to Vienna, passes through the Viennese Gestapo, ends up in Auschwitz , then in another camp, runs again, ends up in Auschwitz again... The train heading to the gas ovens stops as soon as it leaves the station: Auschwitz has just been liberated...Isolde survives thanks to her love. Like Candide with a yellow bandage on her sleeve, she defends the idea of the expediency of fate, stubbornly asserting that everything that happened happened so that she could find her loved one.