A small bakery in Paris, amidst the turmoil of World War II. An unknown soldier hands a young woman a nameless newborn and disappears. At the age of seven, Martin learns from his adoptive parents that he was entrusted to them by a stranger during the chaos of the war. From that moment on, the question of his origins haunts him. It takes him years to understand his fate—and his entire life to meet the man who once saved him. In wonderfully delicate, elegant prose, Simon Van Booy tells the story of how our lives are inextricably linked. He explores the idea that the world is only seemingly a foreign place and that the people in it are closer to us than we realize.