The story starts in 1934 in British Mandate Palestine when little Tonia arrives in Tel Aviv with her family from Poland. Her father is determined to help build a new country and takes his family to the Kfar Etzion kibbutz. There Tonia falls in love with Amos a handsome exotic Yemenite who fights in the Jewish underground, something her father doesn’t approve of. Tonia has always longed for peace and comfort so she leaves Amos behind to make her way to Michigan in the USA. However she soon realises she cannot live and belong in Grand Rapids without her family. So she returns home and discovers her father’s legacy shortly after the end of 1967 war.