It's 1935.
Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom.
But life has other things in store--marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war.
When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live.
She must find a way both to keep her secret and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at war.
Living by her wits among the Germans as their conquests .
