Alexandria, an adventurous, self-sufficient, self-assured young woman, is stranded in France after WWII breaks out in Europe. She has acquired a number of foundlings that she has to get to safety when she discovers that the world as she knows it is just an illusion and that there are other species living among us-unbeknown to all but a very few humans-as her journey continues and she becomes more aware of the reality, of this new world she had no idea existed, falls in love, and narrowly escapes from situations she merely stumbles into due to her ignorance, gets accepted into a family of...