In a frozen, hungry, and often inhospitable Paris, twenty-year-old Christina struggles to survive. Above all, she wants to become an actress. However, she must first find shelter and food. Sometimes she is optimistic and hopeful, sometimes she longs for her Athens, her friends, her home, which a war destroyed. And then she cries... But she remembers her mother's words "after the rain comes fair weather" and continues her uphill journey to reach the top! [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]