For Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it's cracked up to be. She's blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass, Hitler's first large-scale action against the Jews of Germany and Austria. Stella and her husband, Nicky, witness the night's atrocities first hand and during the chaos a family friend disappears. They search the city only to find him arrested and being shoved into a boxcar. He gives Stella a package and asks two promises of her, to deliver the package to his family in Paris and not to exchange the package for his life, no matter what the Nazis promise her. Stella agrees and before she knows it they're being chased across Europe. The Nazis will do anything to get the package, including killing them. Stella must decide who and what she's willing to sacrifice to keep a secret that has been quietly guarded for five hundred years.
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