In a riveting biographical novel, Monika Czernin follows the traces of his extraordinary great -grandetics, and at the same time with the immense suggestiveness and historical accuracy, he depicts the dramatic events of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nora Kinská, born in 1888, grew up in Bohemia and was raised in the spirit of high aristocracy traditions. The family expected Nora to take a proper place in society, but a young lady evolved according to her own ideas. In the middle of the First World War, Nora set out on a journey to Siberia to help the warrior prisoners as a sister of the Red Cross. The stay that was originally planned for several months has become a long experience full of disease, hunger, winter and terror, but also on the way to a new life…