These fifteen journeys--fourteen of them within Poland--take six years,
1940-1946. The distances vary. Sometimes they are minimal, as short as a
two-stop bus ride in a city, or a twenty-minute walk, and sometimes they
are longer--much longer. The traveler is a young girl, who we meet at
age seven. Along the way, she loses her home, her family, her name, her
hair, and finally, her fear. Two things help her on her journeys during
these difficult years: some lessons from her parents and a large share
of luck, which never deserts her.