Follow the Cabrelli family through a tumultuous century of love and loss with this elegant, contemplative novel. The story begins in the present, as Matelda Cabrelli, nearing the end of her life, reveals the past she has failed to share with her family, chronicling her mother's passionate and tragic life story. Domenica Cabrelli is forced to flee Italy before the beginning of World War II, and her adulthood and career blossom in the foreign lands of Marseille and Liverpool despite the devastation being wrought around her. This poignant tale is about the histories we share and the way they change our futures, for better or for worse.