A gripping, epic love story. The American Dream. Who hasn't had it? Who hasn't wished for it? As WWII dawns and America and the world brace for the bloodiest conflict ever known, Fate arranges a chance meeting in Chicago between two young Finnish immigrants, enshrouding them in a fog of love and passion as they struggle to make a better life for themselves in the Land of Opportunity. Toivo is a great artist, a painter many years ahead of his time-an old soul in a young man's body. Kerttu is a smart and courageous young woman with dreams of dancing on Broadway. But just as they have the American Dream within their grasp, circumstances beyond their control thrust the two lovers into a war that changed the course of history-the Finnish-Russian Winter War of 1939-40. A staunch pacifist Toivo must fight for the land he had scorned, forcing him to confront deep-seated and conflicting emotions, while Kerttu, penniless and stranded in New York, has to dance in a burlesque house on Lower Broadway, until-- Fate once again intervenes...