Russia 1996. 11-year-old Nikolai and his 9-year-old sister, Anna, have lived most of their lives in an orphanage inside a 300-year-old former monastery. Their city has changed its name from Leningrad back to St. Petersburg. The teachers and other staff at the orphanage are always grumbling about ‘too much change.’ Some children are being adopted by people from New Zealand; adoption seems like a good escape. Just when Nikolai and Anna are on the brink of being adopted, a stranger tells Anna that she looks like her mother, but disappears. Could it be that their birth parents are not really dead after all? Nikolai and Anna can’t solve the puzzle alone, but who can they really trust to help them?

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