Imagine being at ground zero for an event that ignites a world war. The year is 1939. A beautiful young woman is in her home near Warsaw with her seven-year-old daughter when Germany invades Poland. Her husband is thousands of miles away in New York City. Alone with her child, she watches in horror as the borders of her country disintegrate around her, along with the foundations of society, sanity, and decency. Invading armies, long bread lines, impossibly restrictive laws and border guards are the new order. Friends and neighbors disappear in the night. Warplanes drop bombs everywhere. Homes and public buildings are destroyed in an instant, creating a completely unrecognizable landscape. Facing dangers she never knew existed, her survival and her child's depend on her ability to stay alert and act quickly and decisively. Will her decisions be the right ones? With very few resources but a keen mind and an iron will, she struggles to navigate the dark waters of the most horrifying flood of terror the modern world has ever known. Can she do the impossible to save herself and her daughter from the unimaginable?