The Kohut family, Willy, Sophie and 3 year-old Pavel, join Willy's grandparents in London at the start of the city's darkest hour--the Blitz. Challenges pile up: their flat is burned out in a raid, Willy transfers into the British army, still thirsting for revenge against the Nazis. Sophie takes a maid's job in Cambridge but asserts her independence by opening a caf�. Pavel is sent away from the bombing to live on a farm and learn to become an English boy. Will the Kohut's marriage hold together? What will happen to Pavel?.