January 1914. The Orient Express is speeding from Odessa to Paris. The ten-year-old girl looks along the aisle of the train and sees her mother walking away towards the restaurant car escorted by a handsome young man. Then the girl, who is traveling alone with her mother, enters her compartment, picks up the huge doll More

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