Marie Dular presents the shocking story of her family during and after the Second World War. Her father and mother were educated and socially active, so they had to withdraw from Jesenice, where the family lived, before Germans would have deported them. They retreated to Ljubljana. After the war, the entire family except her mother went to Carinthia as refugees and then across the world. Marie’s mother failed to move and was severely persecuted by the communist authorities for a number of years, separated from her family. Marie found refuge in the Northern America along with her husband and father; her sister and brother did so in Canada. The first time the children gathered at their mother’s side was in 1967, when she was terminally ill; she died in the fall of the same year. Having endured great pain and suffering, Marie found peace, freedom and prosperity abroad, where she started a family and lived in a new home.