Vienna, 1938: Trudi Kanter, stunning and charismatic, is a renowned hat designer for Europes most fashionable women when she falls in love with a handsome businessman. "We were young and the world was ours," she writes. Then, in the blink of an eye, Hitler comes to power and Kanters world collapses. She and her family embark on an incredible journey across Europe, desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Austria.