American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother\'s early life.
Through travel and memory, history and imagination, Catherine resurrects the.
As Catherine searches for clues to her mother\'s elusive history, she discovers that Marijana was orphaned during WWII, nearly died as a teenager, and escaped from Communist Yugoslavia to Rome, and then South America.
When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, twenty-two-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she Never really knew.
American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother\'s early life