"What's past is prologue" -- The Black Forest -- Die Nazi-zeit -- The sidewalk of cuckolds -- The tattler's stone -- Gray days, phony war -- Traveling shoes -- Occupied -- A telling time -- Crossing the line -- The sun king -- J'attendrai -- A time out of time -- Darkness on the face of the deep -- Incommunicado -- Leben in limbo -- Hotel Terminus -- The lion and Miss America -- Love letters -- From the Dyckman house to our new house -- The other woman -- Atlas -- Togetherness -- Crossing the border -- The agenda -- Midi moins dix -- A la fin.
Summary
Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mothers accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalists vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughters pursuit of a haunting question: what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.