The 17-year-old Lara Nasarova is saying goodbye to her summer vacation, to their family’s cozy cottage near the sandy beach of the Gulf of Finland, and to a boy she is so fond of. The village of tall pines and salted air slowly disappears in the car’s back window. What she doesn’t know is that this parting is not for the season. The vanishing landscape behind her is the last familiar image Lara will ever see. Her tranquil, structured life is about to explode, leaving her in a foreign world, a stranger to herself, bearing the unbearable and fighting to survive. How do we find the strength to go on? How do we endure the unthinkable pain? How do we know who we are, why we are