Fifteen-year-old Zoya is leaving home for the first time—loving family, beloved Odessa—for the Village of Zionist Pioneers, an Israeli boarding school. Not long ago, she didn’t know anything about her Jewish roots, but after the collapse of the USSR her life, like that of many of her former compatriots, changes rapidly. Zoya must learn the truth about her family’s past and meet the reality of another country—one that, even without trying to impress her, will become no less close to her. A girl from Odessa struggles desperately with a difficult task: opening herself to the new while staying faithful to what she has left behind—and remaining herself. In Vika Roitman’s subtle, ironic, and very human novel, the coming-of-age story of a teenage girl is inseparable from the atmosphere of the nineties, with their sharp blend of confusion and hopes at the threshold of a suddenly opening world.