Paris, 1939. May a doctor adopt a soldier's heart in times of war? On the brink of World War 2, the American French Océane Bell travels from Chicago to Paris to finish her medical training at the Sorbonne. The artist Jean-Jacques Riveau is the enfant terrible of Urban Realism in France but forsakes his paint brushes to join the French Resistance movement. Cupido's arrow is straight in the hearts of the two lovebirds but Océane steers clear from her boyfriend's resistance activities. Until Jean-Jacques is arrested by the Gestapo and Océane's convictions are heavily tested. She accepts a position as the personal physician to the head of the Paris Gestapo, Dieter Von Stein in the hopes of finding her beloved. But Von Stein has other plans, with Jean-Jacques and with Océane. When he's transferred to a position in Northern Africa, Océane reluctantly follows. In the Egyptian desert a personal tug of war enfolds between the two smart, tenacious people. Only one can win.
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