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When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow's grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess or her haughty, condescending parents - and almost doesn't notice Alicia's bookish older sister, Karolina. But when he is ushered by a servant into their house on Krakow's fashionable Bernadynska street in the winter of 1937, he has no inkling of the way his life will become entangled with the Oderfelts.

Com cada divendres després de sortir de la vella llibreria on treballa, Pedro realitza un trajecte amb autobús per visitar la seva nòvia, Rosane, que viu als afores de la ciutat. Durant el viatge, marcat pel congestionat trànsit de lhora punta, Pedro sentreté llegint un relat sobre el pas de Darwin per Brasil, escoltant rum ors sobre revoltes als afores, observant la ciutat i als passatgers de lautobús.