Malina was an abused teenage drug addict, barely clinging to life. A caring doctor tried to keep her above water as she sank to the depths of her own darkness. It wasn’t enough. In a last-ditch effort to save her daughter’s life, Malina’s troubled mother trafficked her to America, where she hoped her sister Grizella could save this drowning girl. After twenty years as a sex worker, Malina becomes pregnant.

To save her own child’s life, she escapes back across the waters, with the help of her devoted friend Petyr. She is willing to risk her own life to try to find the man who once loved her—to beg him to raise her child. In the hope of delivering an innocent into his arms, she drags herself to the limits to create a single, lasting goodness for her baby. If she can save a life, maybe her own was worth the pain of living.