The unloved and impoverished Russian girl Anastasia, by sheer wit and audacity, turns her life around. Nastya's soul-mate, her first and only doll, tells us the story. She takes us to Siberia, Poland, and Israel; she walks us through a communal apartment in the Soviet Ukraine and a beautiful house in Bel Air; she shares with us the lives of three generations of two families; she vividly describes unspeakable hardships of Anastasia's life; she powerfully depicts Anastasia's courage to escape from the Soviet Union into a new country and her strength to build a new life; and she brilliantly portrays Anastasia's 's glamorous triumph as she reaches the pinnacle of Corporate America and her miserable defeat after being knocked down from there by betrayal and prejudice. This time, for the first time, life to Anastasia seems hopeless, the misery - bottomless. But this time - more then ever - her family needs her courage and perseverance. Will she be able to rise from ashes?