Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True

<p>On the eve of World War II in a place called Half-Village a young man nicknamed the Pigeon falls in love with a girl fabled for her angelic looks. To court Anielica Hetmanskahe offers up his golden hands and transforms her family s modest hut into a beautiful home thereby building his way into her heart. War arrives to cut short their courtship delay their marriage and send the young lovers far from home to the promise of a new life in Krakow. Nearly fifty years later their granddaughter Beata repeats their postwar journey seeking a new life in her grandmother s fairy-tale city. But instead of the whispered prosperity of the New Poland she discovers a Krakow caught between its future and its past. Whimsical wise beautiful magical and at times heartbreaking</p>