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In the fall of 1880, four friends from a small Kentucky town decide that the wonderment of a big city is on the agenda and embark on a journey that will change their lives forever. For one of them, it will be the end. When a mysterious gentleman named Raymond Throckmort enters their lives, he sets into motion events that will span generations. They hope he is the one with the answers they seek.

Just before the outbreak of World War II, Fabienne, a young German girl, flees her abusive, widowed father and takes a job caring for disabled children in a home on the outskirts of Berlin. When Jurgen, a young soldier, turns up on the doorstep of the home asking if he can take Fabienne to the local dance, the women running the organisation agree against their better judgement. Soon the young couple is in love.

Henrik escapes the airbase and travels on foot to Amsterdam for mysterious reasons of his own. Apparently, he has returned from America not to deliver top secret plans of the atomic bomb, but to smuggle his former fiancée, Esther Jacobs, out of German-occupied Holland in a hidden submarine. Before he can convince her to come with him, Esther and her family are evacuated to a Jewish concentration camp in the Harz Mountains. Now Henrik must choose between his tainted loyalty to an evil regime or his forbidden love for a Jewish woman.