With her mother's passing Kate McBride discovers a masterpiece in the attic of her childhood home, a never-before-seen Chagall she dubs simply, "Girl with Flowers." When the painting sells at auction for $50 million, Kate decides to explore the world beyond the Brooklyn bake shop where she's worked since high school, beginning with Europe. Soon after she arrives on the Continent, during a chance visit to the Holocaust Memorial at Dachau, Kate stumbles onto a clue about this enchanting portrait. With the help of a Holocaust Survivor she locates back home, Kate travels back in time to learn of the epic romance that inspired this painting. "Keeping Hannah Waiting" is a story that transcends time, distance, two world wars, and a holocaust. In the end, it is a poignant plea for tolerance, forgiveness of the past, hope for the future, and above all else, for the power of everlasting love.