A story about the significance of loss and the invaluable value of friendship and love by bestselling author Kristina Moninger. A few seconds are enough to give another person hope and bury your own forever. Seconds after which nothing is the same for Sandra and her family, and she has made the hardest decision of her life: she must let go of her son so that another child can live on. Katharina fears for the life of her youngest daughter, Mila. The child has a severe heart defect and, after several unsuccessful surgeries, lives with an external artificial heart. The only thing that can permanently save Mila's life is a heart transplant. Two women who likely would never have met if fate had not brought their paths together. Two families whose happiness in life and love is at stake.