In this novelette an ex WWII POW, a B-17 gunner, returns home only to find that his wife has left him taking his child he has never seen. He finds it necessary to return to Germany in order to clear his conscience and cure a severe depression caused by an incident that occurred while at the POW camp Stalag VII-A Moosburg.

Victor Cantor stood on the deck of the troop ship as it passed the Statue of Liberty and slowly eased its way to the dock in lower Manhattan. There were thousands of people visible on shore and he was watching for a glimpse of his family. He had never seen his daughter Jane, now three years old. He had a picture in his wallet but it was over a year old. His wife, Ellie hadn’t written in several months, or more likely her letters had been lost by his German captors or...