'In the small Silesian coal-mining town of Bóronkowice, two years into the German occupation of Poland, 14-year-old Jasia Kowalczyk is risking her bones to gaze at the stars. But one night, when she breaks curfew to follow her mysterious and troubled brother, Mile, into the forest, she triggers a sequence of events that will change her life for ever....' (ABC Radio National website)