She is the prettiest, cheekiest, and bravest girl on the banks of the Rhine - and she is Jewish. The story of Gudrun Samuel is the story of an entire generation of young women who were forced to flee due to Nazi rule and war. It is an impressive and gripping testament to an era. As a girl, she swam behind the coal barges on the Rhine. She captivated the young men in Mainz. But when the Nazis come to power and the young Jewish woman Gudrun Samuel decides to leave Germany with forged papers, she is caught and taken into Gestapo custody. She manages to escape, but she is no longer the Mainz girl Gudrun; she is now the refugee Judy: on the Trans-Siberian Railway and in the Jewish ghetto of Shanghai. She survives the war, but the odyssey continues. The girl in the current is moving.