In 1941, Jake Ellinson, a talented big-band trumpeter from the Bronx, volunteered as a paratrooper rather than playing it safe in an army band because of his sense of responsibility as a Jew to fight against the Nazi onslaught, and to prove his own courage. Forty-five years after his death on a Belgian battlefield, the last letter he wrote surfaces, revealing a story that had been hidden for years. Now these newly discovered truths, force Jake's family to face their own fears as they fight their own battles against prejudice in the glamorous world of New York society and power brokers.