Widowed, the elderly woman from an immigrant family, has sold her old house in Albany, New York and moved to a retirement home. Her daughter is tasked with a final check of the empty house. Hidden until that day, a disconcerting find, obviously from World War Two, sparks the daughter's overactive imagination. Once back in her own home in Louisville, Kentucky, the widow's daughter begins investigating the tangled history of her mother's past. Old family photos, coupled with Internet searches and National Archive WW II documents that she acquires, complicate and intensify the mystery surrounding her mother's turbulent life. Faced with an unexpected maze of roadblocks she broods whether her family history is best left alone. Is it worth unearthing long buried secrets and potentially toppling what was once known as truth?