For 20 years, my stepmother claimed my father left nothing but debt. Until I found his documents.
For twenty years, Alina believed her stepmother's words: after her father's death, he left behind only debts. She was accustomed to saving, asking for nothing, and considering herself an outsider in a family where Svetlana's own children always got a little more.
But during the renovation of her father's old apartment, a metal box containing documents and a letter from him was discovered behind a closet. One short sentence compels Alina to investigate the past—and it turns out that all this time she owned property that her stepmother had chosen to keep silent about.
Why did Svetlana hide the truth? Where did the money go? And will Alina be able to forgive the woman who truly raised her, but at the crucial moment always chose her own children?
A true-life family story about inheritance, betrayal, a stepmother and stepdaughter, secrets of the past, and the truth revealed twenty years later.