They came to England to start a new life—but to embrace the future they must confront the past November, 1956. Despite concerns on the national and international stage, life for the ambitious nine young families who live in the Dower House, including concentration camp survivor Felix Breit, his wife Angela and their four children, is good. But when a menacing figure from Angela's past turns up—a former death camp guard who was especially brutal to her—it becomes clear that both Angela and Felix will have to face up to the truth of their German heritage if they are to embrace their English future.