Aviya should have been happy that summmer, because her mother, Henya, finally came out of hospital and took her away from school. But Henya cannot escape from her illness, or her memories of torture at the hands of the Nazis in Poland during the war....
In a youth village on Israel's coastal plain, just after World War II, Aviya and her friends, Yola and Mira, share the common sorrow of longing for lost families and struggle together to make new lives for themselves. ...