Cleo is gone, and Magnus doesn't know how to deal with the pain.

During the 1940's, a young Cleo Bellos longs for freedom and hope in the mechanical, dull country of America. When she meets a handsome young stranger named Magnus Damora, she begins to believe that her life is changing. But then, the draft for World War 2 rocks her town, and she finds the world a more difficult and precious place than she ever imagined.