A powerful tale of extremism, expedience, and deceit, The Path to Heaven exposes the disintegration of lives, loves, and hopes of a family struggling to survive during the Holocaust. Sara, Hanna, Dieter, Magda, and Hans return home from a party to find that, having “danced too long in the moonlight,” evil stalks them from the darkness.The discovery that their adoptive parents have disappeared triggers a descent into a nightmare from which none will escape unchanged. A meticulously-researched series of individual real stories has been woven into a thrilling new opera for the 21st Century.