It is May 2014, and forty-nine-year-old archae­ol­o­gy pro­fes­sor Klara Lieber­man has just received a let­ter from her estranged moth­er that will dra­mat­i­cal­ly change her life. Her long-ago-dis­ap­peared father, she learns — the man about whom she has been des­per­ate for infor­ma­tion since she was a child — is dead, and has been for a while. But now the Pol­ish gov­ern­ment is giv­ing finan­cial repa­ra­tions for land it stole from its Jew­ish cit­i­zens dur­ing WWII, and her moth­er wants the pay­out. Klara has lit­tle inter­est in the mon­ey — but she flies to War­saw, deter­mined to find answers about her father.

In Poland, Klara begins to piece togeth­er her father’s and her own, sto­ry. She also con­nects with her late father’s extend­ed fam­i­ly, begins a roman­tic rela­tion­ship, and dis­cov­ers her call­ing: repair­ing the hun­dreds of for­got­ten, pre-War Jew­ish ceme­ter­ies in Poland. Along the way, she becomes a more inte­grat­ed, embod­ied, and inter­per­son­al­ly con­nect­ed indi­vid­ual— one with the tools to make peace with her past and, for the first time in her life, build pur­pose­ful­ly toward a big­ger future.