An English girl marries a German lawyer in the 1930s and they try to live as normal a life as they can in Hitler*s Germany. When Allied bombs start falling on German cities, Christabel takes her two young sons to a village in the mountains. Then she learns that her hu**and and some of his friends h*e been arrested for plotting to assassinate Hitler. She tr*els to the prison where he is held, wondering if telling the commandant that she knows Winston Churchill will help her hu**and or seal his fate. This is said to be based on a true story.