For many Americans, ancestral roots are obscured. Discovering ancestry by searching databases and paying for information on websites only gives a shard of information about who someone is and where someone comes from. Michael Huntington suspects he has living relatives in Europe after discovering a children's story published by a German author, the same story Michael heard growing up. He sets off to meet the author in hopes of connecting with long lost family, but soon after arriving in Germany, Michael finds a closer connection, a connection to a father he never met, a father who went missing-in-action during the Vietnam conflict.