Hilde's furious when she's sent to live with her father on a United States Air Force base. She's surrounded by preparations for the war in Iraq - a war with which Hilde totally disagress - and now she has to put up with Friedman, the annoying American son of a figther pilot, whose views couldn't be more different. But when Hilde begins to unearth the history that lies beneath the air base, and steals a clasp from the grave of a sixth-century Peace Weaver, she becomes caught up in a tragic love story. A story that bears a powerful message about peace, fredom and the price of war...