For Markus the choice was stark - Leave Austria, the homeland he both loved and hated. - Flee from Lizzy, never more than a pale substitute for Laura, the love of his life, shattered to pieces by a bomb. - Flee a country still overshadowed by the aftermath of Nazism. - Make for Ethiopia, that land of all mysteries, magical and captivating, sombre and dangerous, luminous and healing. There, as he sets out to fulfil Lauras dream of finding her uncles grave, Markus is forced to face his deepest fears and experience the highs and lows of every emotion, through the fascinating power of a single object. A ring. A simple ring, on the