A rich, moving, sweeping novel about a family forced to escape Krakow during the Holocaust.

When Alicia and her family are forced to flee Krakow to escape the Nazis, they leave behind all their possessions, including Alicia's most prized object - the portrait her father commissioned of her.

As they move from country to country, desperate to find safety, their once luxurious life in Krakow seems like a memory of another world. But Alicia never forgets the painting and what it represents, and after the war, she resolves to find the artist and recover what is hers.