The book is based on  14 oral history interviews that focuses on a specific topic: the re-emigration of Belarusians from France to Soviet Belarus in 1945-1946.  In interwar period many of them  left  Western Belarus (then a part of Poland) for France. However after 1945 they went back to Belarus due to a massive Soviet propaganda.  Hundreds of children and teenagers who grew up in democratic  France and had French as a native language were to adapt to life in the Stalinist dictatorship.