The summer time of 1917 must have been a summer season like several different. Stephen Robbins must have been doing an identical factor he'd been doing for years previous. As a tender boy he'd fled his existence in a secluded mountain cove and risen throughout the ranks to develop into the executive of the South's most interesting hotel, the stylish Mountain Park resort. via all rights, he must have spent this summer time as host to a couple of the wealthiest gentry at the East Coast. Hans Ruser, German Commodore of the world's greatest and most opulent cruise liner, Vaderland, must have been crusing all over again along with his elite passengers to the a ways corners of the realm. And Anna Ulmann, attractive and gorgeous, must have been at domestic in her big apple mansion making plans yet one more lavish banquet for her recognized husband and his wealthy and strong associates. She must have idled away her spare time by way of taking completely staged photographic pictures of the exact same people.

But warfare will swap every little thing that are supposed to were in that summer season of 1917— the U.S. enters WWI and the Mountain Park lodge is pressed into provider as an internment camp for over 2,000 German nationals, together with Ruser and his males. This surprising collision of lives and cultures within the small city of sizzling Springs, North Carolina is either scary and exhilarating. And the not going alliance that kinds among Hans Ruser and Stephen Robbins will strength each one to determine simply how some distance they're keen to visit preserve peace within the appealing and remoted mountains. Feisty Anna Ulmann, looking to assert her independence in a male-dominated global, mysteriously flees south to commit her lifestyles to documentary images. while she steps off the teach on the scorching Springs depot one sultry summer time day, she couldn't have imagined the passionate trip that may outcome whilst she suits wits with Stephen Robbins. Haunted through demons either earlier and current, they're going to face heartbreaking tragedy. but jointly they're going to become aware of the real that means of imprisonment and escape.