'How do a million and a half people die with nobody knowing? You kill them in the middle of nowhere. ' When Elizabeth Endicott, a young American woman travels on an aid mission to Syria in 1915, little does she realise what atrocities she will have to face. For Aleppo is the final resting place for the hundreds of thousands of Armenians who have been forced to march out of Turkey and through the desert to Syria. There she meets Armen, an Armenian soldier who lost his wife and daughter to the genocide. Thrown together in the unlikeliest of circumstances, their shared experience of the unspeakable events unfolding around them binds them together with an unbreakable bond. m
