The author's Eleni has published in 14 languages. This sequel tells what happened to Eleni's children when they escaped from their Greek mountain valley. Nick Gage was nine years old in 1949 when he and three of his sisters boarded a ship to America to meet the father they had never known. Their fourth sister, 15 years old, had disappeared - taken behind the Iron Curtain by the guerrillas who killed their mother.