After emerging from four years of hiding when the allies liberate Southern Holland in 1944, Jewish translator Sarah van Praag and African American Army Lieutenant Tom Johnson worked together smuggling food to starving Dutch in the north still occupied by Nazi forces. These two young people from completely different walks of life fall in love only to separate after the war. Sixty years later Tom is being forced to move to an assisted living facility in his hometown of Detroit by his children. He secretly decides to skip town and return to the Netherlands hoping to rediscover his first love.