They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one & took me to Mokotow prison Cambridge the present day & out of the past a cry for help Father Anselm the brilliant Benedictine receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell
- the story of a woman betrayed by time fate & someone close to her someone still unknown As a young woman Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland But after her arrest an agent of the secret police makes her a devil's bargain
- & in the dark of a government prison a terrible choice is made Now fifty years later Anselm is called upon to investigate both Roza's story & a mystery dating back to the early 1980s in the icy grip of the Cold War & as he peels back years of history decades of secrets a half-century of lies he exposes a truth that victim & torturer would keep hidden