Lilli Gruber, who is celebrated as a moderator and politician far beyond the borders of Italy, succeeds in this bestseller from Italy, just as she did in "The Inheritance," in combining documents and letters from her family's possession with great suspense and narrative confidence to tell a family saga: "A powerful, an incredibly intense book," judges not only the Corriere della Sera. It is a time of upheaval, a time of darkness, not just in South Tyrol. Hella Rizzoli knows that the fate of her homeland also determines her life. She must decide whether to continue living on her family's estate and accept being Italian from then on. Yet her heart beats for the cause of the Germans, for which her beloved is also fighting. However, he is far away in great danger - and she must go through the storm alone.