As the storm clouds of World War II gather over Europe, Elise Landau realizes it is no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna, and she is forced to trade her life of champagne parties to become a parlor maid in England, where at least she will be protected from the growing Nazi threat. But between struggling to help her still endangered parents and adjusting to her position of servitude on an aristocratic estate, she must find a way to believe in the possibility of transcending social and class boundaries to survive the Holocaust and make a new life for herself.