The Song of Silence is the last book in the Silence trilogy, in which the author describes young Mina and her life in a boarding school in the period after World War II. The family's Home Guard past makes the girl's path to a profession and independence difficult at every turn. She struggles with deprivation and hunger, tries to earn some money to survive, study and, despite everything, live a carefree youthful life, but her mark keeps getting in her way. Tired of the eternal struggles and difficulties, she finally goes to Cleveland to find happiness and a new life. Mara Cerar Hull, spent her first twenty years in Slovenia, and has now lived in America for fifty years. She writes in English and Slovenian, publishes stories, comics, poems, plays and short stories.