1989 in Romania. All around Europe, communist governments are falling. Cristian Florescu, a seventeen-year-old Romanian, aspires to be a writer, but the country's rigid laws prevent this from happening. Cristian is threatened by the secret police into turning into an informant while living under the repressive dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in a nation where isolation and terror are the norm. There are only two options left for him: betray everyone and everything he cherishes, or take advantage of his position to ingeniously challenge the most notoriously cruel dictator in Eastern Europe. 1989 in Romania. All around Europe, communist governments are falling. Cristian Florescu, a seventeen-year-old Romanian, aspires to be a writer, but the country's rigid laws prevent this from happening. Cristian is threatened by the secret police into turning into an informant while living under the repressive dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in a nation where isolation and terror are the norm. There are only two options left for him: betray everyone and everything he cherishes, or take advantage of his position to ingeniously challenge the most notoriously cruel dictator in Eastern Europe.