The Scent of a Storm: A WWII Story about Love Courage and Survival

A heart-wrenching love story for the ages - inspired by true eventsEastern Prussia 1944: Young lovers Annie and Werner are separated from each other when he is drafted into Hitlers Volkssturm. While the SS orders Werner to remove the dead bodies of frozen refugees from Königsbergs streets Annie discovers she is pregnant. As she urgently awaits Werners return rumors of the advancing Red Army mount and with it alarming reports of what they do to women. Running for their lives Annie and her mother embark on a life-threatening journey west. Even before they can escape by boat Annie makes a horrifying mistake one that will haunt her forever. Werner arrested and imprisoned in a Russian gulag manages to escape after four months of cruelty and returns home. But his and Annies farms lie abandoned-the love of his life and his own family have vanished...East Berlin 1989: On the evening of November 9 when the borders between East and West Berlin open for the first time in nearly thirty years-a day which ultimately heralds Germanys reunification-Annie watches a correspondent on West TV who reminds her of her childhood sweetheart Werner the man she has thought dead for 45 years. Together with her daughter Emma Annie sets out on a search...