Northern Italy in 1941 is a war zone like all the others spreading their stain across Hitler’s Europe, with Mussolini’s new racial laws twisting loyalties and destroying  families and friendships. But for Lili and Esti, who have been close as sisters, the war only magnifies and deepens their reliance on each other, until one day Esti is torn from her young son and Lili is forced to flee with him, a choice that might very well cost Lili her own life.

Dr. Linda Burghardt, Scholar-in-Residence, will lead the discussion.