Paris 1943. Elise Chevalier knows what it is to hate. Her fiance, a young French soldier, was killed by the German army at the Maginot Line. Elise's mother fears for her outspoken daughter. In occupied Paris, there is a punishment for those who draw attention to themselves; those who refuse to stay silent. Brittany 1963. Reaching for the old suitcase under her mother's bed, eighteen-year-old Josephine Chevalier searches for her birth certificate. What she discovers shakes her to the core: her mother has been keeping a secret. Determined to discover the truth, Josephine travels to Paris, to her mother's sister. There, she learns the story of a French girl in danger and a forbidden love affair. Of the last stolen hours before the first light of Liberation. And of the whispered words of a shocking betrayal that would irrevocably change the course of a young woman's life for ever.