The United States has entered the war, and Nazi intelligence scrambles to install spies who can be caught and not convicted, questioned but not suspected. At fifteen, Kurt is a proud patriot of the Reich. He is beyond enthusiastic when asked to participate in a top-secret spy program. But when he poses as an orphan and placed in an unsuspecting American family, everything Kurt believed about himself and his country begins to crumble. In the struggle between his allegiance and reality, he is forced to make a choice. Who will he betray?