In the modern Netherlands a small group of biracial citizens have for eight decades lived puzzling, often difficult lives. The children of Dutch women and African American soldiers stationed in Europe in the final years of World War II, they were born into conflict with American and Dutch racial attitudes and policies, and with questions about their own origins. Some would eventually learn their fathers' identities, and of the lives they led after the war. One would locate and meet his father; another would visit her father's grave after 73 years. All would come to understand their own lives in the context of their fathers'. This book relates their experiences, offering fresh insight into the history of race relations in America.