Betty describes Berlin in the thirties and her family’s escape after Kristallnacht in November 1938, sailing to China in May 1939, getting out just days before her father was required to appear before the Nazi Gestapo. Betty describes life in the Shanghai Ghetto as well as the period after WWII when the U.S. was stationed in Shanghai and the euphoria of those days. After her marriage, Betty and Oleg are caught up in the Civil War in China; in 1949 they immigrate to Australia and a few years later to the U.S.