Norah, an English "war guest" living with the wealthy Ogilvie family in Toronto, can hardly wait for August. She'll spend it at the Ogilvie's lavish cottage in Muskoka a whole month of freedom, swimming, adventures with her "cousins..". But this isn't an ordinary summer. It's 1943, and the war is still going on. Sometimes Norah can't even remember what her parents look like she hasn't seen them in three years. And she has turned thirteen, which means...