At middle-age, Karin Halber discovers everything she thought she knew about her parents and her childhood is untrue. Reared by her grandparents, she was led to believe her mother and father lost their lives in a car crash when she was only five years old. In a chance meeting with a childhood acquaintance, Karin learns nothing could be further from the truth. Determined to find out what really happened to her parents and why they abandoned her, Karin launches her own missing-person investigation. Her search uncovers clues to her abuse and attempted murder at the hands of Nazi sympathizers operating in the United States in the 1940's.