What connects the following? War correspondent Raylan Chapelle suffering a horrifying experience in Saigon, 1965. His son, newsman Paul Chapelle, thirty years later, in Moscow to investigate an attack on his former colleague. While there, he stumbles on a well-guarded secret. Farah herself, in the garden of the presidential palace in Kabul, forced to relive a traumatic event from her childhood. Different people. Different places. Different times. But all entangled by threads of love and war, threads that Farah can't help but unravel, no matter the cost . . .