Though his daughter begged him to remain, Alfred, accompanied by his friend Sigbjørn, embarked on an eighteen-month voyage aboard a merchant ship bound for New York.

Though vessels find watery graves and comrades fall, Alfred and Sigbjørn persevere with courage against the German Navy's relentless advance, their unwilling involvement in the conflict continuing.

The war’s devastation left Sigbjørn adrift. He sought to piece together a life in Norway, but a startling letter would soon set him on a course toward an irreversible choice.