When people on Paris' bustling streets look at Michael Roth, they see little more than a Parisian student, a quietly spoken young man with a book under his arm, handsome but guarded What they do not realize is that he is carrying a painful secret, one that he cannot even reveal to the woman he loves For Michael is no ordinary Frenchman but a German He has been sent to Paris to assist the Nazis in dealing with Resistance fighters Desperate to escape his daily life, he steals into the world of the oppressed Parisians, and into the path of Chantal But as Michael falls for the bookseller's beautiful daughter, he discovers that a person's past always catches up with them