When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but she is troubled by her memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she remembers living with a German Nazi family who called her by another name. As she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by the question: who is she, and where was she stolen from?