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It would seem that a girl from California in the 21st century and a girl from Germany in the 1940s have something in common. The answer is blood. Each generation of this family suffers from the political and family cataclysms caused by previous generations. The voices of Saul, Randall, Sadie, and Christina - six-year-olds, each of whom is the father of the last - speak with breakneck speed about the madness and cruelty of our world, spanning geographically from San Francisco to Munich to Haifa to Toronto to New York.

This novel seems to stand against the barbarism inherent in humans, and Nancy Huston lovingly and fiercely celebrates memory, loyalty, resilience and harmony as an alternative to hypocrisy and lies.