Fate brings three unlikely characters together in Kristin Harmel's poignant story of Nazi-occupied Paris in the 1940s. Ruby Henderson is an American who recently loses her husband, French resistance fighter, Marcel Benoit. Broken-hearted after the loss of her baby and husband, Ruby decides to join the French resistance against all the odds and help downed air pilots make their way back home to fight again another day. Eleven-year-old Charlotte Dacher lives across the hall from Ruby in the same apartment building. When her parents are rounded up in a raid of French Jewish citizens, Ruby hides Charlotte with the promise that she will protect the young girl with her life. Then, downed British air pilot, Thomas Clarke, comes into their lives, and changes everything.