1943: The world is at war. Europe suffers under the madman Hitler. Fear of Nazi attacks on Cape Ann, north of Boston turns to hatred of local citizens of German descent. A young man is left alone to care for his sick mother when his father, a former German naval officer suddenly disappears leaving the family in extreme poverty. The lad finds a new friends; an old man who is a guard at the local watch tower a reclusive middle-aged European woman whose...