On a still summer night in a seventeenth-century canal house in Amsterdam\'s old quarter, Pia de Jong gives birth to a delicate, bright-eyed baby girl with a riddle on her back--a pale blue spot that soon multiplies.
Pia and her husband Robbert make an intuitive decision.
In a bare, air-conditioned hospital room, a doctor reveals the devastating answer: it is a rare and deadly form of leukemia, often treated with chemotherapy, a cure nearly as dangerous to a newborn as the disease itself.
On a still summer night in a seventeenth-century canal house in Amsterdam\'s old quarter, Pia de Jong gives birth to a delicate, bright-eyed baby girl with a riddle on her back--a pale blue spot that soon multiplies