Twelve-year-old twins Viktor and Nadya are evacuated from their home in Russia after Hitler's Germany invades the Soviet Union. But Vikor and Nadya are accidentally separated from one another during the evacuation and embark on a harrowing journey to find their way back to one another.

"Originally published in Italian as La sfolgorante luce di due stelle rosse by Mondadori in Milan in 2017, and subsequently publiched in English in the United Kingdom by Pushkin Press, London, in 2020"--Copyright page.