In 1943, German soldier Erich Stein is captured by the Allies and sent to a prison camp in Canada. Initially determined to escape, Erich's time in Canada causes him to question everything he once believed about what it means to be "a good German." In the present day, seventeen-year-old Keira Martin is chosen for a prestigious internship at a museum built on the site of the former prison camp. Her research project, solving the murder of Erich Stein in 1945, could win her a full-ride scholarship to her dream university.But when a fellow intern drowns, Keira unveils a potential connection between the intern's death and the Hoppers, the politically powerful family promoting anti-LGBTQ+ policies who funds her museum program and the scholarship. Across two deaths, decades apart, Kiera must navigate this moral quagmire as she solves the mysteries and secures her own future.