In Europe, radical factions like the Bader-Meinhoff Gang were using guns and bombs to affect change, attracting revolutionaries from around the world. After wandering the continent to find themselves, Faith is drawn to the excitement of the Red Army and joins the terrorist group, leaving Wolf behind. Faith's fails to prove herself as a revolutionary and is abandoned by the gang. She joins a splinter faction and, when she delivers a bomb to the offices of a prominent industrialist one night, an innocent man is killed.
Faith is changed forever by the incident.
Once there, she traces Faith's movements from Amsterdam to Berlin to Paris where she finds Wolf. Her appearance at his doorstep and her mission cause the expatriated American to join Phoebe on her quest. A romance ensues. During the journey Phoebe convinces Wolf to tell her the truth about her sister and this truth is to change Phoebe forever. There is an innocence to both the story and its telling that is rather refreshing.