During the Second World War, a young French girl of Spanish descent meets an American lieutenant.They fall in love and get married, and she crosses the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean in the middle of the war to start her new life in the U.S., while he continues to serve in Italy, France, and Germany. She ends up in Mexico City, where her husband was born.This is the story of her family's struggle to survive during the war, and what it took for her to adapt to her new life.