Colourful and inviting advertisements on TV promising you a better and more prosperous life in a new country are not always true.

Zdravka is a young hot-headed Scorpio always ready to make sudden decisions. Due to this her decisions are often wrong. After a broken engagement she practically leaves overnight her promising career and homeland to study in Germany. She later continues working in Germany, where she meets a charming compatriot, very attentive and loving and she believes she found a partner for life. They marry and soon after on her husband's initiative they migrate to Australia. In spite of being badly neglected by her husband, whose personality changed in a matter of months after the marriage, she plays deaf and blind and sticks to him through thick and thin. She finds herself in a new country with unwelcoming locals, experiences isolation, betrayal, humiliation and racism – all without sympathy, understanding and protection of a man she is emotionally involved with. One day, and after almost fifteen years of a bad relationship, Zdravka finally woke up.

The author was born, raised and educated (Philosophy) in Zagreb Croatia (former Yugoslavia). She worked in Yugoslav Airlines (JAT), later studied in Germany and worked in WLZ Bank, Stuttgart, consequently married in Germany and re-settled in Australia. Dept of Immigration (Freelance translator for Ethnic Press); NSW Dept of Health (Medical Croatian Interpreter); 1987 - BA degree Macquarie University ; ACE College of English (Accommodation Officer/Office Manager). Holtermann Business Courses Pty Ltd certificate - runs a Small Business from her home office. Her only son lives happily in Australia.