Berlin, 2004. Edward Cohen, the owner of a hip fashion boutique, has heard again and again since he was a child how much he resembles his great-uncle Adam, who he never met. At the moment when Edward's life in Berlin breaks into a thousand pieces, Adam's legacy falls into his hands: a stack of papers, addressed to a certain Anna Guzlowski. Berlin, 1938. Adam Cohen is a dreamer. But he is a Jewish boy in 1930s Germany, and this is no time for dreaming. When eighteen-year-old Adam meets Anna, he suddenly realises what all his dreams were about. But while the Cohen family are planning their escape to England, Anna disappears without a trace on the night of the 9th November 1938. How can Adam possibly find her? With intrepid humour, Astrid Rosenfeld tells a moving story about fate and great emotions, and about how the past permeates the present.