TriesteAn old woman sits alone in Gorizia, north eastern Italy. She is waiting to be reunited with her son. He was fathered by an S. S. officer and stolen from her sixty two years before by the Nazi authorities during the German occupation. By focusing on the experiences of one individual, Drndic engages head on with the traumatic history of WWII and the Holocaust and deals unsparingly with the massacre of Jews in Trieste's concentration camp. A literary