Paula Ben-Gurion wanted to marry a man but what she got was a state. Paula Munweis was sent from Minsk to New York as a young girl, dreamed of studying medicine and was a staunch anarchist. But then she met her husband, the founder of the State of Israel: David Ben-Gurion. In her twilight years, she reluctantly moves with him to a kibbutz in the Negev desert. May 1966: The next day, Ben-Gurion is expecting a late friend, Konrad Adenauer, until recently Chancellor of Germany. And once again, it is up to Paula to organize and arrange this visit.

Poverty, wars, motherhood and constant solitude and loneliness: This novel tells the story of a strong, courageous woman whose life demanded many compromises and made her the wife of the founder of a country she did not believe in. Towards the end of her life, she sets out once again to find herself.