Moving away from Munich isn't as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. However, beyond the forest that surrounds their new home in Buchenwald is the work camp her husband has just been assigned to administer. When Frau Hahn's poor health leads her into an unlikely friendship with one of the prisoners, her naïve ignorance about what is going on around her is challenged. A novel of devastating beauty set in Buchenwald during the Second World War.