Tessa de Loo's compelling novel follows the lives of twin sisters, Lotte and Anna, who are separated at age six in the 1920s. Lotte is raised in the Netherlands by a loving, intellectual family, while Anna remains in Germany, enduring a life of poverty and hardship. World War II irrevocably drives them further apart, placing them on opposite sides of the conflict. Decades later, they reunite as old women, forcing them to confront a lifetime of differing experiences, memories, and the painful question of whether their shared blood can bridge the chasm created by history.