When journalist Suzanne Randolph hears about FDRâs plan to bring a boatload of displaced WWII refugees to America, she knows it may be her last chance to redeem her flagging career. Suzanne follows the story to Oswego, New York, where she meets Theo Bridgewater, a Quaker dairy farmer from Wisconsin who has come to reunite with his uncle and aunt and cousin. Theoâs fight to spare his relatives the return to Germany becomes Suzanneâs fight as she does everything that the âpower of the penâ can muster to help win public sympathy for the cause.
When journalist Suzanne Randolph hears about FDRâs plan to bring a boatload of displaced WWII refugees to America, she knows it may be her last chance to redeem her flagging career. Suzanne follows the story to Oswego, New York, where she meets Theo Bridgewater, a Quaker dairy farmer from Wisconsin who has come to reunite with his uncle and aunt and cousin. Theoâs fight to spare his relatives the return to Germany becomes Suzanneâs fight as she does everything that the âpower of the penâ can muster to help win public sympathy for the cause.