1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France Claudette Pelletier a young and
talented seamstress and lover of romance novels falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks
shelter at the chãateau where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must
flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the
birth of her child the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice and escapes
to Spain leaving her baby in the care of his nursemaid. By the time Claudette is able to
return years later her son has disappeared. Unbeknown to his anguished mother the boy has
been rescued by a Youth Aliyah agent searching for Jewish orphans. 1968: When Israeli naval
officer Daniel Yarden recruits Sharon Bloomenthal for a secret naval operation in Cherbourg
France he can't imagine that he is the target of the agenda of the twenty-year-old grieving
the recent loss of her fiancâe in a drowned submarine. Sharon suspects that Danny's past in
Youth Aliyah may reflect that of her mysterious late mother and she sets out to track her
boss's extraordinary journey as an orphan in a quaint French village all the way to Israel. As
Danny focuses on the future of his people and on executing a daring crucial operation under
France's radar he is unaware that the obsessed Sharon follows the breadcrumbs of clues across
the country to find her answers. But she is wholly unprepared for the dilemma she must face
upon solving the puzzle--
