Maria, a woman of sophisticated Chilean origin, cheerful and superficial, attends astonished to the German occupation of Paris, which forever truncates her life until then carefree and impassive. Chance takes her to know the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people and, without measuring the consequences, motivated by the simple impulse to help, decides to collaborate with the Resistance by saving the children of some Jewish women sentenced to death in the Extermination camps. Based on a true story, this thrilling novel reveals the transforming power of compassion and speaks to us of a form of discreet and perhaps even more admirable courage.