Irina's story begins in what should have been a quiet period in Europe's turbulent history, but in 1378's Poznan, Poland, her life turns upside down when her family disowns her because she became pregnant by the son of a Jewish merchant in whose house Irina worked as a servant. The Joselewicz family, including their son who loved her, could not welcome her because as Jews, they were blamed for the latest visitation of the Black Death, and were burned...