A pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words…countless lies…millions of deaths… and one fate­ful birth.

Preg­nant with her first child and a recent con­vert to Judaism, artist Kali Miller at last under­stands the joy of being part of a lov­ing fam­i­ly. But Kali must put her cos­set­ed life on hold to care for her nine­ty-three-year-old non-Jew­ish grand­moth­er who has inex­plic­a­bly lit dozens of sacred yahrzeit memo­r­i­al can­dles through­out her decay­ing Mia­mi Beach home, almost burn­ing it down. Kali probes her enig­mat­ic grand­moth­er, Lil­lian, for an expla­na­tion and infor­ma­tion about her roots, but Lil­lian becomes increas­ing­ly para­noid. She believes that some­one from her past has found her and a paint­ing she has hid­den for over sev­en­ty years. A paint­ing Lil­lian asso­ciates with her inad­ver­tent role in one of the most hor­ren­dous episodes in his­to­ry. Plagued with night­mares, guilt, and ter­ri­fy­ing mem­o­ries of her life in 1930s Berlin, Lil­lian reveals cryp­tic details to Kali. But only when Kali dis­cov­ers her grandmother’s secrets in the old house’s hid­den rooms does the full truth final­ly emerge. A truth that, if exposed, will have dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for Kali, her unborn child, and per­haps even the world.