![]() ![]() Prickly at first for his own reasons, Hanover hires Sera to find the painting. ![]() Learning that a copy of the artwork hangs in a California business magnate’s home, Sera is unwillingly drawn out of her reserve by William Hanover. She is obsessed with finding a painting that she saw as a child of a beautiful Auschwitz prisoner holding a violin. Seventy years later, New York gallery owner Sera James buries herself in work to avoid the memory of her wedding-day betrayal. By 1943, both young people are conscripts at Auschwitz-Birkenau, forced to play in camp orchestras for the daily death march. ![]() They disapprove of the young musician who calls her “Butterfly” because he is of the merchant class and-worse-sympathizes with Jews. In Vienna in 1940, Adele von Bron is a gifted young violinist, coddled by her Viennese parents, as the Third Reich exerts its power over Austria shortly after the Anschluss. ![]()
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