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Forced to flee Ukraine in 1914, the talented young violinist Olena Lovenets and her brother Vitaliy believed they were heading for a land of true freedom. When they arrived in Canada, the war broke out and they found themselves among the families of prisoners at Spirit Lake Camp. Betrayed, deprived of her property, Elena must make decisions that will forever change the course of her fate.

When she meets Alexander Lavalier, she is forced to admit that despite the war, there are still happy people. Does she have the right to dream, caught up in a whirlwind of events that turn her life upside down? Her forbidden love, which becomes known to everyone, causes contempt in her environment. In people's minds, she and Alexander are now sworn lovers...

And the world is in a state of flux.

At the outbreak of the First World War, spurred on by growing xenophobia, the Canadian government established twenty-four detention camps across the country, including Spirit Lake Camp in Abitibi. Turks and Germans were held there, but the vast majority were Ukrainians. Only two of these camps were able to accommodate seven prisoners, and Spirit Lake was one of them. It is in this little-known place that the events of Claire Bergeron's fascinating, informative and touching novel take place.