Rose has changed. She still lives in the same neighborhood and goes to the same high school with the same group of kids, but when she woke up today, something was a little different. Her clothes and her hair dont suit her anymore. The dogs who live upstairs are no longer a terror. She wants to throw a party, this from a girl who hardly ever spoke to her classmates. Theres no more sadness in her life; shes bursting with happiness. But something still...

After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it is finally time to speak publicly about her experiences.