Sarajevo, 1914. Rafael Pinto is working in the family pharmacy when the world explodes. He will soon find himself in the trenches in Spain, where heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that he has known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for is the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier. Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches and find themselves entangled with spies and Bolsheviks.
As they travel over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman that will truly survive.
