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A young Jewish pianist at Auschwitz, needy to save her family, is chosen to play at the camp commandant's house. How could she know she'd fall in love with the wrong youngster? "Take care of one another... and go back home safe. So when you do, notify everyone what you observed and what they does to us." These are Hanna's father's parting words to her and her sister when their family is separated at the gates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau focus camp. Her father's words - and a dark-colored C-sharp piano key hidden away in the folds of her dress - are that she has remaining to remind her of life before. Before, Hanna was going to be a famous concert pianist. She was going to wear her yellow dress to a party. And she was going to party with a youngster. But then the Nazis emerged. Now it is up to Hanna to do all she can to keep her mom and sister alive, even if which means participating in piano for the commandant and his guests. Keeping yourself alive isn't supposed to include falling in love with the commandant's kid. But Karl Jager is beautiful, and his aloofness belies a key. And war makes you do dangerous things.