Helena's father Stefan was one of the 732 Polish children offered unlikely refuge in New Zealand, following Soviet deportation during the second world war. This memoir explores his experiences, the burden he carried and recreates part of his long journey from Poland, across Siberia, through Iran and ultimately to New Zealand. It's a very moving book, very well written; the revelations unfold at just the right times in the text. Even if you have little or no interest in the story of Polish child refugees, this is such a beautiful book, and so powerful and moving, that you will want to read it.