Prague, 1939. Willy and Sophie Kohut own a prosperous business specializing in selling British fabrics for tailoring suits. When the Nazis occupy Czechoslovakia, Willy is arrested and accused of spying for Britain. After Sophie engineers his relea...
After a perilous journey from Nazi-occupied Prague (described in The Dragontail Buttonhole). the penniless Jewish Kohut family reaches Paris. Willy Kohut, married to the beautiful Sophie, is a dispossessed fabric merchant desperate to join his par...
The Kohut family, Willy, Sophie and 3 year-old Pavel, join Willy’s grandparents in London at the start of the city’s darkest hour -- the Blitz. Challenges pile up: their flat is burned out in a raid, Willy transfers into the British army, stil...