It is loosely based on the 2009 autobiographic novel Quanta stella c'è nel cielo (How Many Stars Twinkle in the Sky) by Edith Bruck.

[1][2] It is 1945, World War II has just ended, and Anita, a 16-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl who survived Auschwitz but was orphaned, is taken in by her paternal aunt Monika in Zvíkovské, Czechoslovakia.

But Anita is immediately treated coldly by Monika, who forbids her to talk about her experience in the concentration camp.

Anita, finally realizing that she is unloved by Eli, escapes by jumping from the balcony and reaches the city's Jewish reception center, where she knows that trips are being arranged to Marseilles, and then sails to Palestine.

The young girl finally manages to leave with other Jewish boys to reach Jerusalem, where David is, and, on the truck that will take her to Marseille, she travels serenely to her people's past with only one piece of luggage: the future.