Guernica,1937: Seventeen-year-old Sibil and her mother and three younger sisters are browsing in the market when German bomber planes strafe the market and bomb the village, killing hundreds of civilians, mostly women and children. Sibil’s mother and sister are killed, and she and her two other sisters are trapped under the wreckage. She is rescued by an American military attaché, Griff, who helps her locate and save her surviving sisters and escape the rubble before more danger befalls them. Sibi and Griff’s bond is forged in trauma and he guides her to lie to Nazi officials seeking to blame the Spanish Republic for the attack, and say she saw the insignia of the Republic on the planes rather than swastikas. This is the only way for her to protect herself and her sisters from further harm. As weeks pass she and her sisters move to Germany to live with their father, a scientist working on jet propulsion engines for the Nazi party, and secretly a member of the un