The novel has been translated into 15 languages, published in 30 countries and will be filmed by the producer of the films “The Departed” and “Shutter Island”. The book is based on real events. Berlin, 1939. Hannah Rosenthal is a Jewish girl with an Aryan appearance, and now that the streets of Berlin are covered with ominous flags, her family is no longer welcome in their homeland. A glimmer of hope appears in the form of the St. Louis, which promises Jews refuge in Cuba. But the ship that was supposed to be their salvation seems to be their undoing. Seven decades later in New York, on her twelfth birthday, Anna Rosen receives a strange package from an unknown relative in Cuba, her great-aunt Hannah. Anna and her mother travel to Havana to discover the truth about their family's mysterious past.