One snowy night, when a blizzard paralyzed life throughout the city, Dr. David Henry had to deliver his wife himself. This night will be fatal for the young father, and for his wife Nora, and for the doctor’s assistant Caroline, and for the newborn babies. The shadow of an amazing, incomprehensible secret will cover all the participants in the drama; their paths will diverge for a long time, only to cross again years later. Reading this novel, you will be fascinated to follow the fate of the heroes, watch how a marriage, based on the most tender of feelings, is destroyed due to blind submission to conventions, corroded by lies and deceit. However, from under the ashes, the sprouts of a new life, nourished by love and understanding, will certainly break through. This beautiful, sad and optimistic novel has it all: love, suffering, mercy, redemption.