Luiza Budejko

The twenty-something protagonists, a girl and a boy, emigrate from Poland to Germany. They take low-paid jobs, and in time she gets into college, and he loses his job at the warehouse and falls into bad company.

10-year-old Magda loses her younger brother. The father is deeply grieved, the mother is cold and unavailable. Magda decides to revive Marcel and has a great idea for it that must work.