Fifteen-year-old Zoya leaves home for the first time, from her loving family and beloved Odessa, to the Village of Zionist Pioneers - an Israeli boarding school. Just recently she had no idea about her Jewish roots, but after the collapse of the USSR, her life, like many of her former compatriots , is changing rapidly. Zoya will have to find out the truth about her family's past and get acquainted with the reality of another country, which, without trying to please, will become no less close to her. A girl from Odessa desperately struggles with the difficult task of opening up to new things, staying true to what she left behind — and remaining herself. Vicky Roitman’s subtle, ironic and very human novel is a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who learns to cope with intense feelings and make independent decisions, is inseparable from the atmosphere of the nineties with its acute mixture of confusion and hope on the threshold of a wide-open world. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.