Piri is a city girl, but every year she goes to visit her grandmother
Babi on her farm in the Ukrainian village of Komjaty. There is a lot
that Piri finds strange, even scary, in Komjaty, such as the ghost in
the form of a rooster who supposedly haunts the cemetery! But Piri loves
country life: making corn bread, eating plums right off the tree,
venturing out with her grandmother in the early morning to hunt for
mushrooms. And during her time with Babi, Piri learns lessons that will
stay with her all of her life, about the importance of honest hard work,
of caring for the less fortunate, and of having the courage to stand up
for those who cannot stand up for themselves. In these nine stories,
Aranka Siegal paints a tender portrait of the love between a grandmother
and granddaughter, inspired by her own experiences with her grandmother.