An innocent eleven-year-old girl secretly escapes with her mother from Communist East Germany, leaving her Nazi father behind. She painfully struggles to adjust to her new life in West Germany. The pain of the loss of her father leads her back to East Germany sixteen years later to find him and part of her lost self. However, he rejects her because of her new religious identity. Then she meets a famous Jew, who becomes the love of her life, despite a huge gap in their ages. She deals with her devastation at his sudden death in an unusual way and ends up in Jerusalem. The steps that lead her there are described vividly and the ultimate secret of her journey is revealed most unexpectedly from her first-grade notebook found by her stepmother on the loft of her East German childhood home. The author describes her spiritual journey from Communist East Germany to Jerusalem in an endearing, earthy, captivating style that draws the reader into her multi-layered inner world of imagination, determination and hope. The depth of the scenes she paints is reminiscent of great literature of the past.