Publisher's Synopsis
Anne Greves, a motherless girl from immigrant stock, defies opposition and falls in love with Serey, a gentle rebel and exiled musician. She's still only sixteen when he leaves her in their Montreal flat to return to Cambodia to find his family in the aftermath of Pol Pot's cruel revolution... ...After a decade without a word, she travels to Phnom Penh - a city traumatized by the Khmer Rouge slaughter. And against all odds the lovers are reunited. But when Serey again disappears, Anne discovers that the journey she must now embark upon may reveal a story she cannot bear.