1966, Florida. Pepper Schuyler is the kind of woman society loves - a glamorous individual that men watch across crowded, smoky rooms, and women try to keep their husbands away from. But the legend of Pepper is far from the truth, and now she's in a fix that she can't see her way out of. Unmarried and pregnant with a famous senator's baby, she's fled Washington and is hiding on the Florida coast, waiting for the mysterious buyer of her only possession of value: a rare black 1936 Mercedes Roadster. Unknown to Pepper, this car was the only means of escape for a young French woman who drove for her life across Germany to the French border as Europe paused on the brink of the Second World War. As the startling provenance of this car comes to light - a Nazi husband, a Jewish lover, a flight from Europe, and a love so profound it transcends decades - two women must come together to face the past.