The novel Memory and Desire is a saga of all-consuming passion and unfulfilled hopes; This is a novel about the intricacies of destinies and events. It covers several decades of the heroes' lives and takes readers from pre-war Paris and war-ravaged Poland to the palaces of modern Italy, to prosperous Switzerland and to another continent - to America today.

Readers follow with intense attention until the last pages of the book following the life of the family of the main character Sylvie Kowalska, trying to guess the outcome of the dramatic and mysterious story.