"But why, why take her with him? He should have left her where he found her, with the bloody dog in her arms... so many houses destroyed, so many dead, so many orphans..." Maria is a victim of the brutality of war. In her homeland, Iraq, the smart bombs of the Americans deprive her of parents, home, her beloved puppy. With no one in the world, mute, she finds herself in a foreign country, Greece, to claim the right to love, the right to life. An orphaned child is not a stray dog... But will what the war unjustly takes from her be offered to her by a new family, a new homeland? "My Maria... never forget the war... grow up and become a guardian of peace!" [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]