Germany, early 1944: The French resistance fighter Mila is deported to the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück. She is in her early twenties and pregnant. Mila fights daily for her life and that of her unborn child in the brutal reality of camp life. Miraculously, she gives birth to a healthy son. He is placed with the other newborns in the "nursery" of Ravensbrück. A moving novel that tells, in a straightforward yet virtuoso manner, about a little-known phenomenon of Nazi history and about an extraordinary, brave woman who never loses hope.