They come from money, poverty, the big city, the small town, the farm. Four women caught up in WW II fight their own battles in a search for love and survival. In Berlin, Ilse Lach, a young actress, finds her life endangered by an SS blackmailer. In New York City's Little Italy, schoolgirl Gina Sabatini is offered up to the local don in payment of her father's debt, while Southern heiress Diane Colquitt awakens to find herself trapped in a nightmare. And on a farm in the Midwest, Susan Lund, flees from boredom to the thrill of life under fire in a strange country. In their fight for freedom, they find love, glory, lasting friendship, and... deadly enemies