When Lucas Roggenkamp a Dutch historian takes his Family on holiday to the south of England, the last thing he expects is to find an old photograph of a member of the Dutch Royal Family attending a wedding in the local church. A wedding he knows could not have happened, as there is well-documented proof that this wedding actually took place in Amsterdam. However, there is one man who knows the truth, Lucas's family listen spellbound as the man tells his tale. To Lucas's two young daughters it is a fairy tale, perhaps it is. Set during the Second World War, the tales follows one man Harry Cane. From Alkmaar in 1940 as the German Blitzkrieg, rolls across the Netherlands to war torn England where invalided out of the army he is offered a job, a job that will take him into danger. A job that will eventually take him back to 1944 Holland on a race against time and change his life forever.