Spring has arrived in New York City.
The year is 1939 and the world is about to change.
A 22-year-old novice songwriter in the Bronx named Reuben Rabinowitz spends his days playing the grand piano on the fifth floor of Macy's.
Also working at the department store is a young lady of 19 named Rose Deutsch.
Reuben and Rose connect, flirt and date and eventually marry - all in the space of seven months - because of the imminent war.
By Dec.
8, 1941, Pearl Harbor has been bombed .