At the dawn of World War II, a Rabbi's daughter, Rachel and a disenchanted German soldier, Oskar fall in love but are separated by this awful war. Pregnant and resigned to the fact that she will never be reunited with Oskar, Rachel finds herself marrying another man. Meanwhile, Oskar's mother (Daryl Hannah) is urging him to resist his own father's commitment to war and country and to find Rachel at all costs. After a perilous journey to find one another, a chance reunion between Rachel and Oskar at the dangerous Russian front line, leads to tragedy, hope and one man's ultimate sacrifice.