
In 1933 Bella Stuart leaves her quiet London life to move to Italy to tutor the child of a beautiful Jewish heiress & an elderly Italian aristocrat Living at the family's summer home Bella's reserve softens as she comes to love her young charge & find friendship with Maestro Edward his enigmatic music teacher But as the decade draws to an end & fascism tightens its grip on Europe the fact that Alec is Jewish places his life in grave danger Bella & Edward take the boy on a terrifying train journey out of Italy
- one they have no reason to believe any of them will survive