Lea witnesses her mother's rape and murder by her father as a child and because of it speaks very little and writes poems to her mother.
Lea then grows up with foster parents in a different part of Slovakia.
As Strehlow learns more of Lea's past, he permits her to continue writing to her mother.
Lea dies of a stroke within a year of living with Strehlow.
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