Eva was following the way of her patron St. Therese of Lisieux by doing little things for people as a pediatric nurse in a New York hospital when she fell in love with Marek a Polish exile. They are married and living in London in the spring of 1981 and Marek is trying to foment a popular uprising in Poland to liberate his home country from Russia. Though he drags Eva into a world of political intrigue and tests her faith she keeps her vow to love him no matter what he does until she confronts the truth about him—and about herself.