Set in the summer of 1969, Neal McKenna embarks on a journey into his wartime past under the guise of a college graduation gift for his son, Colin. The two travel from their home in the Naugatuck River Valley in New England to Normandy, where twenty-five years earlier, Neal McKenna had jumped with the 82 Airborne to his near death only to be saved by a mysterious French woman. The lasting impression this woman's rescue had on Neal in his few days with her, being brought back from impending death, is his driving motivation for seeking her out so many years later to express his deepest...