Violette, a student at the Vienna Medical school, is forced to leave her studies due to the racial laws of 1938. She is arrested by the Gestapo and manages to escape to the forests, joining the Jewish partisans.
The story of Beatrice Palumbo can be the story of us. People immigrate, meet other people, and mate. To say that there is a pure race is a racist statement. Beatrice was born a Catholic in Livorno. She meets Claudio Palumbo who reveals to her that her last name may be of Portuguese Jewish descent. She visits Clara, the sister of her late father, and discovers a dark past that spans five hundred years. Furthermore, she decides to go out in search of her roots.
The reader will experience two historical periods, eight hundred years apart, intertwined with each other, revelations and parallel lives shrouded in mysterious, hallucinatory reality, occurring in the most beautiful region in the world, where history has always blended with romance, religion, and mystery.