In 1945 near the end of World War 2 military forces were desperate for medical personnel and specifically nurses to travel to support their troops. Rebecca, an American woman whose brother had been drafted decided to participate in an accelerated nursing program so that she could go and support the troops. The moment she lands she realizes she is in way over her head but also embraces the reality that she has chosen for herself. She believes in nursing, serving people, helping to bandage soldiers so that they can continue to do their job for the country. It is in the midst of her trying to help people that she gets lost in a massive rice field where she literally trips over a soldier from the other side. Without even thinking twice she drops to her knees and begins to bandage him up realizing that if there are more soldiers like him close that she will be taken in as a POW. But luckily, as life would have it another woman arrives in the rice field and tells the soldier to never tell anyone that that he saw an American nurse and to run. This is the first encounter of Rebecca and Linh who spend only a matter of hours together but in those hours their friendship is forged, built, strengthened, and challenged.

It is sometimes in the unlikeliest of situations and circumstances that we find a lifelong friend. And many years later on July 4th as Rebecca celebrates her 80th birthday she crosses paths with a beautiful woman that looks just like her friend that she has not seen in 35 years. Both with tattered notes in their hands after all of these years they kept their promise to each other, to celebrate their 80th birthday together in New York City over a slice of pizza and a bagel. A story of war, that reminds us even in the worst of situations it is still possible to come out of them holding the hands of a perfect stranger who eventually in a short amount of time becomes family.