children of interfaith marriage

The daughter of a titled German woman and a Jewish attorney describes her life as a "half-breed" in Nazi Germany.

Anne Rosenbaum, the wife of Howard, a powerful Hollywood executive, and mother of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam, finds her life transformed when a request from a studio head that she make a reading list morphs into a book club that attracts all of Tinseltown, and she must somehow deal with even bigger changes when a personal crisis prompts Howard to turn back toward the Jewish Orthodoxy of his youth.

Presents a true story about a young girl's refusal to render the Nazi salute in pre-World War II Germany and how she learned very quickly to understand the power of the choices people have to make.

After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, Hitler found that eliminating Jews from the rest of the German population was more difficult than he had anticipated. Perhaps as many as 150,000 military men were classified by the Nazis as partial-Jews (this included decorated veterans, high-ranking officers, generals, and admirals). Many of these men did not consider themselves Jewish and had been fully absorbed into the German armed forces. Investigation and removal was hard and Hitler himself signed many exemption orders. But, as the war dragged on, even in the face of dwindling numbers of German soldiers, more and more of these partial-Jews met the same Holocaust fate as millions of other Jews in Hitler's Europe.

On the day that Maya and her father arrive in India from Canada to bring her mother's ashes to their final resting place, Indira Gandhi is assassinated. In the chaos Maya loses her father and she must trust a young man, Sandeep, to help her find her father.