As World War II draws to a close in a remote Italian village, a nurse named Hana cares for a severely burned stranger—the sole survivor of a crashed aircraft whose identity remains a mystery. The man's only possession, a annotated copy of Herodotus's Histories, holds fragmentary clues to a past shadowed by tragic love and wartime trauma. Through careful examination of his handwritten notes and fragmented memories, Hana begins to piece together the story of a man forever changed by fire and longing.
