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Dublin, 1950. Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She had been far more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted by Elizabeth and Daniel Lieber meant she and Erich spent the war in Northern Ireland, safe and loved, but Liesl always knew something was missing.
When an opportunity to return to Berlin to represent her university presents itself, she is torn. Should she go back to the city that rejected her and her family? Would it be too harrowing, or might it feel like home?
In Berlin, a chance encounter with an old family friend sparks emotions Liesl had suppressed since childhood. She finds herself desperately wanting to return to those carefree days before Hitler, when life made sense, but why was her family so set against her return? Were they truly worried about her, as they claimed, or was there a darker, more sinister reason?