Seventeen-year-old Valentina Kovalova considers her Romanov blood to be a blessing until Bolsheviks kidnap her.

Their leader becomes her lover and helps her to go home. He returns to his rebels without knowing she is pregnant. Her father shuns her, his cousin Tsar Nicholas abdicates, and Valentina delivers twin sons in the midst of war and revolution. Bolsheviks kills her parents and two sisters.

Valentina flees to Germany with her infant son, leaving behind his twin brother whom she believes is dead.

She inherits the extensive estate of her aunt and marries a handsome man from a prominent family. He becomes a confidant of Adolf Hitler. Her husband thinks the Führer will restore Germany to her rightful glory. Valentina recognizes him for the madman he is. At great risk to herself, she refuses to support him and hides a Jewish girl in her home.