--- Summer, 1939. Teenagers Elizabeth and Niklaus begin a passionate relationship one could only read about in books, full of warmth, fire and excitement, when he visits the United States for the summer. It was quickly hard to imagine life without each other, it couldn't get any better. Nothing could come between. That is until September comes, and the fascist German Fuhrer invades Poland despite promises not to. War is inevitable. Distance is inevitable.