At a Mumbai museum, Livia Manera Sambuy chanced upon a 1924 photograph of Amrit Kaur, a Punjabi royal who had sold her jewels in occupied wartime Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. How could such a sensational story be so little known? To uncover the truth, Sambut delves deeply into the world of the Raj, resulting in this engrossing detective story that is also a moving portrait of a woman seeking personal freedom against the backdrop of a world in upheaval.