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The Ark, we start in post-WWII Germany with a family who has been shuttled around to camps after being ousted from their home in German-occupied Poland. The Lechow family is Mrs. Lechow, 14 yo Margret and two younger children Andrea and Joey. They are refugees now in west Germany and have arrived with almost nothing to board with a woman named Mrs. Verduz who expected a couple with no children. Though west Germany is better off than east Germany, there is still so much hardship, destruction, and scarcity. Benary-Isbert knew all this firsthand from her own experience and there are details here to make one weep, but she tells it all with a great gentleness.
Soon, the oldest child in the family, Matthias, returns and joins his family. He\'s just 15, but he\'s sent to work in construction, though he longs to be an astronomer. Andrea and Joey are able to go to school. Mrs. Lechow uses her sewing skills to help the family slowly get back to a semblance of normalcy. Mrs. Verduz begins to see how her lodgers may actually help her and the family is making good things from the wreckage of war. They all long to know if their doctor father, who was a prisoner in a camp, is still alive.
While the others find friends and places to belong, Margret is still struggling. She\'s too old for school and doesn\'t feel much hope about finding something to do that she loves. Enter a spunky older woman named Mrs. Almut who lives on a farm outside of town. The kids visit her farm when they go Christmas caroling and Margret gets a glimpse of a life she longs for...
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