Interweaves the stories of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother who gave her up in favor of a son, as two families--one in India, the other in the United States--are changed by the child that connects them.

A husband and wife adopt a "hedgehog"--A kid with thorny skin, introvert who doesn't show emotions and suspicious of everything around him. But the loving parents and pleasant environment change him ... The first Polish story about adoption aimed at small children.

1928, Paris : A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn't dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who he really is. As he grows into a young man, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris, he can almost forget the terrors of his past, or the promise he has vowed to keep. But...

"Wydawać by się mogło, iż Elektra D`Apliese posiada absolutnie wszystko, o czym człowiek może marzyć. Przytłaczająco piękna modelka, ciesząca się międzynarodową sławą, a do tego niewyobrażalnie bogata. Jednak wszystko jest jedynie grą pozorów. Kobieta w rzeczywistości znajduje się na granicy załamania nerwowego. Nagła śmierć jej adopcyjnego ojca tylko pogłębia pustkę, w której się znajduje. Zapomnienie w całej tej beznadziei...