At the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes takes a manuscript from a Berlin mansion and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him. Decades later, Henry's niece, Susanna Kessler, attempts to return it to its rightful owner, a journey that will challenge her preconceptions about her family's history. This National Jewish Book Award winner by the author of A Fierce Radiance is also the story of Sara Itzig Levy, an 18th-century musician who comes into possession of a deeply troubling manuscript b J.S. Bach.