1936: Emma is devastated by the loss of her dear brother Hugh and makes a sincere effort to honour him by accepting his aspirations for a communist revolution. But when she weds an ambitious ambassador, she is forced to put her ideas aside and adapt to embassy life in Nazi Berlin and Paris. Her loyalties are then tested when one of Hugh's former teammates asks her to report on her cheating husband.
1979: Phil, Emma's grandson, longs to take a gap year tour of Cold War Europe but is unable to raise the money for it. He therefore seizes the chance to go traveling with his cherished grandmother when she decides to make one last trip to the destinations where she once lived as a young diplomatic wife in order to try to solve a mystery that has plagued her since the war. But neither of them could have envisioned the darker, dangerous areas that their trip eventually take them. must read ppl.
1979: Phil, Emma's grandson, longs to take a gap year tour of Cold War Europe but is unable to raise the money for it. He therefore seizes the chance to go traveling with his cherished grandmother when she decides to make one last trip to the destinations where she once lived as a young diplomatic wife in order to try to solve a mystery that has plagued her since the war. But neither of them could have envisioned the darker, dangerous areas that their trip eventually take them. must read ppl.