 Despite her outward professional success, Agate lives with an inner turmoil caused by her memories of war and perpetuated by her husband Joe.Nesaule finds herself in therapy, depressed and unable to come to terms with the root cause of her depression.On the advice of her therapist Ingeborg, Agate learns she can not begin to heal until she is able to tell her story; the story of what happened to her and her family during World War II in Latvia and Germany at the hands of the invading Russian soldiers.