Publisher's Synopsis
Misha is an aristocratic young officer in the army when the Russian revolution sweeps away all his certainties. Tonya is a nurse from an impoverished family. They should have been bitter enemies, yet they fall passionately in love. It cannot last and, as the political situation grows ever worse, Misha is forced to flee the country. Thirty years later, Misha seeks to rebuild his life in the destroyed city of Berlin. Then, one snowy winter's day, he glimpses a woman who resembles Tonya. Can this be his lost love? Drawn into a dangerous double game of espionage and betrayal, the two lovers struggle to find each other, as the divide deepens between East and West.
