About the book: 2004 / Christel Hellkopf is beautiful, she has a fiancé and an interesting job. But by chance she learns that during the Second World War, a Russian governess girl lived in her family, bought for sixty marks. This comes as a shock to a young and successful woman. She studies family archives, and they reveal their terrible secrets. Having abandoned everything, Christel goes to Russia to find the lost traces of a Russian girl. In St. Petersburg she meets love. But will a confident German woman and a thirty-year-old Russian man be able to understand each other??