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It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious warmth of our breath…
Christian by faith and Jewish under the law, Katalin struggles with her dual identity in a Hungary caught up in World War II and its aftermath. She and Istvan, a Jew, fall in love. They struggle with their desire for marriage and to have a child in the midst of the increasing threat from Nazi violence. Istvan is deported to a concentration camp; four months later Kata and family seek refuge with Christian friends.
A korszak legnagyobb gondolkodóinak és művészeinek otthont adó Itália azonban a kíméletlen politikai játszmák, a véres leszámolások és az orgyilkosságok földje. Amikor a kényes tárgyalások kellős közepén lévő Sforza kastélyának kertjében egy holttestet találnak, a régens híres pártfogoltjához, Leonardo da Vincihez fordul.
