In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.