Sent to destroy American rebels by the English king, a Hessian soldier finds himself trapped in a New England community, wounded and desperate to find an escape.
When his entire brigade is wiped out by the American colonists, a sixteen-year-old German drummer boy survives with the aid of a Quaker family and the local doctor. Yet, surrounded by war and by prejudices, he is not out of danger.
The story of David Hartman, a chaplain fresh out of the Army, who comes to serve as rabbi to fourteen Jewish families in a rural New England town just after World War II.
