In a battered orphanage among distant artillery fire, a resourceful teenager—raised by war criminals as their prodigy—plots vengeance against the invaders who stole his only semblance of a family. Disguised as one of his childhood playmates, a spy infiltrates his circle, forging a fragile friendship teetering on catastrophic betrayal. As each side’s pain and secrets entwine, the protagonist must decide whether to sacrifice the one person with whom he shares an unspoken kinship, or forge a legacy from the ashes of ruined trust.
