Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing that she might discover it in an old book her mother is loving translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man named Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer.
He spend his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing ocean and generations, and changing lives ...