1939, London: Eighteen-year-old Ada Vaughan is a beautiful, ambitious seamstress and a career in couture is hers for the taking. A chance meeting with enigmatic Stanislaus von Lieben catapults Ada into a world of glamour and romance. When he suggests a trip to Paris, Ada is blind to all the warnings of war on the continent. But anticipation turns to despair when war is declared and the two are trapped in France...