an American woman in wartime Germany
While visiting Paris in 1927, Aimee, a wealthy American, falls in love with Heinrich, a charming, yet penniless Baltic aristocrat. They marry, but life in 1930s Germany is bleak. Two years into World War II, Heinrich volunteers for the Russian front. Left to fend for herself in a country at war with her homeland, Aimee gathers up her children and flees the advancing Russian army on an epic journey to the country she thought she left behind. Her daughter, Sigrid, tells the story of her mother's life, as well as her own.
