Gerard Cox

In 1940, a struggling poor young man falls for a girl who must pay a terrible price to save her mentally disabled brother by marrying a powerful shrewd businessman. Then Rotterdam Blitz, a devastating German bombardment, begins.

A hard-nosed, spouseless cardiac surgeon finds herself reconsidering her career-driven life choices as she bonds with her lighthearted new artist neighbor.

The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.