With the Nazis an hour away, terrified Baroness Ivana Demitrenko is making a desperate attempt to save herself and her teenage son Michael on the last ship leaving Odessa. Little does she know what lays ahead.

Unwittingly she sets Michael up for murder when the man she pays to care for him throws him overboard and takes his identity Worse, on returning home she is forced into being the reluctant mistress to an SS officer to save her husband Sava.

With strength and determination she plots and Sava is released. They join the Ukraine Resistance and she becomes their leader. Michael survives and shows his true worth by joining the Greek resistance where he is destined for great things. Now reunited they are determined to find the man who tried to murder Michael. Ivanna shows a strong woman with more courage than mere mortals.