He's too good to be true, but is he good enough? In the desolate Dust Bowl of 1935 Kansas, a handsome stranger offers Maddie Hecker a way to escape the slavery threatened by a husband the judge won't let her divorce. The mystery man's promises come couched in secrets. He leads her to the German airship Graf Zeppelin, which has flown a clandestine mission Kansas on orders from Germany's new Nazi government. Aboard with her daughter and her lover, Maddie must use her wits in a desperate contest for survival amid the clashing loyalties of hard-edged men.