Life for the Hanks children couldn't have changed more significantly. Spending their entire summer training, studying history, learning tactical skills from Alice and Cyrus, the siblings are isolated from virtually the whole world. Celebrating Sebastian's 16th birthday a little late, they are all surprised when their father shows up in Ithaca, alone, with news that their mother has been kidnapped by the man who may want them dead: James Tildon. And with little time to reconcile hurt feelings, Sebastian is forced into the first journey with only Ethan and Scotty for help. Gina and Cyrus travel through the trunk, but are pitted against them, having to play roles of the enemy: members of the Nazi party. The three Hanks children reluctantly put on their Star of David, are forced into the Jewish Ghettos, and have to overcome suffering, starvation, and potential death to find the Ring of Dolor.