A wrong number. A hidden history. A love that could cost them everything.
Brussels, 2026. Fifteen-year-old Miriam Goldstein's life shatters with two words: Dirty Jew. An insult in a schoolyard. A smile from her attacker. And suddenly, the world outside her window becomes a place she can no longer face.
She retreats to her bedroom. Stops going to school. Watches the city through glass, convinced that hiding is the only way to survive.
Then a text message arrives-sent to the wrong number.
The stranger on the other end is Youssef Benali. He's seventeen. He's Muslim. And he has no idea that his great-grandfather's secret is about to change both their lives.
Anderlecht, 1943. Mohammed Benali, a Muslim butcher, makes an impossible choice. When a nine-year-old Jewish boy arrives at his door in the middle of the night-parents taken, nowhere to go-Mohammed hides him in his cellar. For seventeen months. Through Nazi raids and suspicious neighbors. Through hunger and fear and prayers whispered in two different languages to the same God.
The boy survives. Mohammed's act of courage is forgotten-until now.
Two timelines. Two families. One devastating question:
In a world determined to divide us, is love an act of resistance-or an act of betrayal?
As Miriam and Youssef's forbidden connection deepens, they uncover the secret that binds their families across eighty years. A secret of rescue. Of sacrifice. Of a debt that can never be repaid-only honored.
But in a Europe where antisemitism and Islamophobia rise side by side, where their own families carry wounds they've never spoken aloud, Miriam and Youssef must decide: Will they let history's hatred define their future? Or will they choose each other-and break every rule to do it?
