When you've known nothing but fear for fifteen years, have no idea who you are or where you came from, where do you get the strength to face the truth? Where do you find the courage to challenge the familiar world and start a battle? A battle for your freedom, for the right to live, speak, and feel for yourself—as your heart and memory dictate. A memory that they also wanted to take away from you?

The novel's protagonists escape from state boarding schools to continue their parents' battle. A battle that seems lost in advance. On the path to freedom, they will have to make terrible, all-too-mature decisions: kill or be killed, stand alone against the army or disappear into the crowd, remain silent their whole lives or finally sing at the top of their lungs.