Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau takes on a new identity after her husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear to escape Nazi forces, leaving Emma behind to face the atrocities of war and deny her growing attraction to another man.

Brought to the Paris Peace Conference by her father, Margot Rosenthal initially resents being trapped in the congested French capital--until she meets Krysia and Georg, a handsome, damaged naval officer who gives her a reason to question everything she thought she knew about where her true loyalties should lie.