When Beatrix König's parents up and leave their home country of Germany during the year 1938, her heart is broken. Leaving behind her friends, family, and young sweetheart Heinrich Strauss, her small family settles its way in to their new country of England. However, hostility is their only receiver. Young Bee quickly finds the undoing of her good-girl reputation in 1. A few fist fights with rude girls, 2. A certain Peter, 3. A war.