In 1929 Katya is 16 years old surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When Stalin’s activists arrive in her village it’s just a few a little pressure to join the collective. But soon neighbors disappear those who speak out are never seen again and every new day is uncertain.Resistance has a price and as desperate hunger grips the countryside survival seems more a dream than a possibility. But even in the darkest times love beckons.Seventy years later a young widow discovers her grandmother’s journal one that will reveal the long-buried secrets of her family’s haunted past.This is a story of the resilience of the human spirit the love that sees us through our darkest hours and the true horror of what happened during the Holodomor.