This sweeping saga about female resistance fighters, spies, and an ordinary Dutchman during WWII and beyond is based on true events that took place all over Europe and the USA:

• Jakubek Hirschfelt (Kairos’ future father-in-law) was born in Poland’s Wołyń region.
• Edeline Adler (the Jewish girl whom Kairos befriended at the Amsterdam Orphanage) was born in Salzburg, Austria, but left the country with the first Kindertransport from Vienna.
• Kairos Keizer was born in Amsterdam, Holland, but had to escape during the Second World War.
• The Comet Escape Line which Kairos used to do so, was set up by Dédée de Jongh in Brussels, Belgium.
• The Escape Line took Kairos from Paris, France to the Pyrenees mountains bordering Spain.
• Via the British enclave of Gibraltar at the southernmost tip of Spain, Kairos took a ship to England.
• In London, Kairos was selected to go to Manchester RAF Ringways, UK for training.
• Meanwhile, some of the Muses who were instrumental in helping Kairos stay safe ended up in the hell of deathcamp Ravensbrück, north of Berlin, Germany.
• At the end of the war, these Muses were taken in the “white buses” of the Swedish Red Cross first to Malmö and ultimately either to a refugee camp in Skatås or a sanatorium in Halmstad, Sweden.
• In 2020, Kairos’ grand-daughter in Baltimore, Maryland (USA) accidentally found out how all these protagonists and places were connected…