This book - based on the real events of times of Second world war in France recital of twentythree-year girl Eva, that, using the talent of artist for making of counterfeit documents, helps hundreds of the Jewish children to hurry from nazis to neutral Switzerland. Children get the new, invented names and not able long to remember real. Eva and her beloved Реми decide to save their real names and encipher them in an ancient book the name "Book of the lost names" is given that. As a result of treachery the cell of Resistance shuts down, Реми disappears, a book appears in the hands of nazis. After decades above-ground in America Eva hears that a book is in the Berlin library, and buys a ticket on an airplane.