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Berlin, 1939

As war breaks out across Europe, Clara – a British midwife married to a German officer – finds herself an outsider in the place she has called home for nearly a decade. Dismissed from her hospital and powerless as a pregnant Jewish woman is turned away alongside her, Clara is forced to confront a terrifying new reality. 

She may not recognise the city she once loved, but she won’t stand by and watch as a desperate mother and her child are neglected, so she delivers the woman’s baby in secret – a single act of courage that changes everything for her and her husband.

But as the war tightens its grip, so does the peril surrounding Clara and the people she loves most. Jewish families are being torn from their homes and Clara will do everything she can to save them. But will it be at the expense of her own life?

Amelia is drowning. She’d give anything to soothe her new baby and snatch a few desperate hours of sleep. While her husband, Nathan, works late, Amelia sees shadows moving in the walled garden of their remote farmhouse. She locks every door at night and finds them open by morning.

Then she hires Lena, a young nanny with a miraculous way with Oscar, and everything starts to get better. It should be a relief. Instead, dread coils tighter in Amelia’s chest.

Because there are still footprints in the flowerbeds. Because Nathan is taking whispered phone calls. And because Lena watches Amelia with something that looks almost like pity, or anger. As exhaustion blurs the line between paranoia and reality, Amelia asks herself: is motherhood breaking her? Or has she let a dangerous stranger into her home?