Meydele

Somewhere in the past, a mother is waiting for a daughter she has never met. Germany, 1980s. Ingrid knows how to survive, but not how to be loved. An impossible journey carries her to Odessa in 1933, where Tsilya Peltzer welcomes her into a Jewish family, gives her the name Gita, and calls her *Meydele*—her little girl. Amid the warmth, humor, and Yiddish traditions of Soviet Jewish Odessa, Gita discovers what it means to belong. She finds a family, a future, and love. Then war comes. As a doctor aboard a Soviet military hospital train, Gita fights to save lives while the world that once saved her is torn apart. But her story does not end with the war. Time has one more impossible turn in store. A story of two lifetimes, a nearly vanished world, and a mother's love that even time cannot erase.