In 1977, Jeanne's German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells Jeanne he's gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a celebratory long weekend. Jeanne relents. But Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a mutual friend, in which he writes that he has fled to Germany and Jeanne will never see him or her children again. The next four months are filled with agony,...