Leningrad in 1952: a city recovering from war, where Andrie, a young hospital doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together. They try hard to avoid coming to the attention of the authorities, but even so their private happiness is precarious. Stalin is still in power, and the Ministry for State Security has new targets. When Andrie treats the seriously ill child of a senior secret police officer, Volkov, he finds himself and his family caught in an impossible game of life and death--for in a land ruled by whispers and watchfulness, betrayal can come from those closest to you.
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