Leningrad, 1941. A once dreamy city, now besieged by the Nazis - buried in snow, cut off from any help... A city full of women desperately struggling to save their children and themselves - at any cost...

Seattle, 2000. Anya Whitson loses her husband and immediately feels the weight of years and grief unbearable. It is time to reach out to her estranged daughters. Slowly, hesitantly, she begins to tell them a fairy tale about a beautiful little Russian girl who lived in a magical city before an entire lifetime...

Nina and Meredith have heard the beginning of the story many times, but never the end. This time, determined to find the truth behind the myth, they will push their mother to tell the whole story. And they will discover a secret so unimaginable that it will shake them to the core - and make them see their mother, their family, and their own lives in a different light.

"The Winter Garden" is an epic love story set in World War II Russia, but also a story about the unbreakable bonds between women - mothers, daughters, sisters - guilt and redemption. It is a story about war - not of heroes, but of ordinary people who carry it within them even when it has long ended.