A story about Mother Russia and her collapse. About war, the tsar, the tsarina, their daughters, and their fate. About the mythical treasures of the Romanovs. About mediums and saints and the Bolsheviks and their revolution that swept everything away. About hunger and robberies. About pity, passion, and despair.

A story about inheritances and traditions. A sorrowful story. About the fear that haunted a woman who struggled to survive in Saint Petersburg and also in New York, far from the onion-shaped domes of Russian churches, the frozen Neva, and the terror that reigned there. Seeking a new homeland for herself and her daughter, in the land of freedom and hope.