Have you ever asked yourself what your life would have been like if things had turned out differently in November 1989? What would be our fates if communism did not end and we remained behind the iron curtain separating us from the world and from each other? One of the most successful Czech writers, Alena Mornštajnová, surprises again. Her new novel is a dramatic story of an ordinary family, which is divided and pitted against each other by the great history of one November night. We follow the story of Marie Hajná, who is arrested and sentenced to twenty years in prison for participating in demonstrations. She knows that she will probably never see her children grow up, and only the letters keep her alive. And also the hope that they will find each other after all. In addition, the story of the girl Magdalena unfolds, who is taken from her parents and placed in a "sanatorium" where new communist cadres are trained. Their destinies will intersect one day, but in a completely different way than they both imagined and wished for. From the author of the bestseller Hana