Just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, German-Jewish journalist Immanuel Birnbaum escapes from Warsaw to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. Recounting a fictionalized version of his grandfather's colorful wartime life, Daniel Birnbaum traces what happens when Immanuel becomes entangled with British intelligence agents who distribute anti-Nazi propaganda in Stockholm. When Churchill dispatches a sabotage mission and the plotters are exposed, Immanuel will find himself caught in the middle of the war at last.