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In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.

Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.

Nearly four years after leaving Vienna to escape the Nazis, sixteen-year-old Stephie Steiner and her sister, eleven-year-old Nellie, are still living in Sweden, worrying about their parents, striving to succeed in school, and at odds with each other despite their mutual love.