'Throughout the history of tribal conflict, what has the victor demanded of a young woman of the defeated tribe? As a beautiful woman on the wrong side of the war, you are powerful but also vulnerable...' In war, people do unforgiveable things but under extreme circumstances, there may also be acts of redemption. In 1943 German occupied France, a Nazi officer - half German, half English - finds himself billeted with a young woman - half French, half American. In the language they share, they discover that a bond between enemies comes at a high price and comes with betrayal and risk. Over the months they have to negotiate the shifts of power between the conqueror and conquered until each finds the humanity in the other.