It’s 1913 when Mina, daughter of a Jewish merchant, roams into a forest on the edge of the Baltic Sea looking for mushrooms. Instead, she encounters a gang of unruly, charismatic Bolsheviks. Intending to save her from further corruption and in an act that forever changes the trajectory of their family’s life, Mina and her eldest brother, Jossel, board a ship to England. When WWI hits, Jossel is sent to the front, where he keeps a severely wounded soldier in his unit alive by saying his sister Mina will marry him if he survives. The soldier lives and asks for Mina’s hand, their marriage uniting two growing trade dynasties. But over time Mina and Jossel will learn that not everyone in their family has survived the wars and pogroms, even as they and their offspring struggle to build new lives in Liverpool in the midst of ever-shifting discriminations.