A new edition of the beloved novel, winner of the ATKV Prize for Romance Novels.

The Second World War divides the world, it tears families apart. In this milieu we encounter De Wet and Klara, Gerbrand and Christine – young people with dreams and aspirations that are each affected by the war in different ways.

When an Italian prisoner of war is assigned to come build a bridge over the Nile on the Fouries’ Bushveld farm, he meets Klara and finds a kindred spirit in her . . .