This is a tri-timeline story. In 1942, Noemie Treves and her husband are rounded up by the Nazis because they are Jewish. She is expecting, and is haunted by an event she believes she could have changed. She is smuggled out of the camp to a maternity hospital in southwest France.
In 1955, someone visits the abandoned hospital and reminisces about those who lived there during the war, the fear, those who were taken, what could have been. Not until the end will you know for sure who is narrating this timeline.
In 2022, Caitlyn Laurent takes a missionary training course in Spain and visits the hospital to learn more about where her grandfather was born in 1942. She is plagued by the recent death of her best friend, with whom she was supposed to share the adventure.
A lot of the book is introspective and expository. At times I skimmed through. Fellow student Aiden brings a spark of life to the story.