On a golden August morning in 1939, sisters Antonina and Helena Dabrowska send their father off to defend Poland against the threat of German invasion. The next day, the first bombs fall on Warsaw, decimating their city and shattering the world of their youth. Antonina turns her worry into action and becomes a key figure in a daring network of women risking their lives to shelter Jewish children. Helena finds herself drawn into the ranks of Poland's secret army, joining the fight to free her homeland from occupation. But the secrets both are forced to keep threaten to tear the sisters apart - and the cost of resistance proves greater than ever imagined.