When fourteen-year-old Maria—a member of the Polish underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw—is taken to Auschwitz, all she can do is blame herself for her family’s deaths. For four grueling years, her strategy is simple: Live. Fight. Survive. After several risky ventures, many resulting in punishment, she is finally free of the sadistic camp deputy, Fritzsch. But relief soon turns to horror when she uncovers evidence that Fritzsch himself shot her family, sparking her need to find him one day and make him stand trial. Now eighteen, Maria vows to avenge her family’s deaths—but to get justice, she must return to Auschwitz. There, she meets Fritzsch and demands answers over one final chess game. But should she be unable to withstand him long enough to uncover the truth, she faces only one certainty—execution.