Livia Bitton-Jackson 

“I weep and weep.  I weep for my classroom, which is no longer my classroom.  For the school that will never be my school again.  I weep for my life, which will never be the same.”

 

Only 3 short months away from graduating school, Elli’s school is closed.  She is told to go home.  Her hope of getting into a prep school in Budapest is put off forever.