The golden skies the translucent twilight the white nights all hold thepromise of youth of love of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched thiscity of fall... » 

The golden skies the translucent twilight the white nights all hold thepromise of youth of love of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched thiscity of fallen grandeur or the lives of two sisters Tatiana and DashaMetanova who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother andparents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitlers armies attack Russiaand begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad. Yet there is light in thedarkness. Tatiana meets Alexander a brave young officer in the Red Army.Strong and selfconfident yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past he isdrawn to Tatianaand she to him. Starvation desperation and fear soon griptheir city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatianaand Alexanders impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart andexpose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protectsa secret asdevastating as the war itselfas the lovers are swept up in the brutal tidesthat will change the world and their lives forever. «