This historical novel, a melting pot of fact and fiction, tells us a story of an abomination of one of the hardest hit European cities during World War II. The German aerial bombardment turned the Rotterdam city center into a barren wasteland. Rotterdam became a society with forced labor and resistance fighters, people in hiding, Jews, traitors and whores. And let us not forget: Nazis. The people try to survive the terror that was gradually becoming hellish barbarity with only one goal in mind: to experience the liberation of their city and country. This city of lost dreams is situated in the 1940's, but it reflects the tragedy of life in any occupied and war-torn city.