She is much more than the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and once she tasted political life, she soon followed her own interests, changing what it means to be a politician's wife.

Leningrad's Dmitri Shostakovich has risen from a child prodigy to be one of the Soviet Union's most celebrated composers, having rescued his career from Stalin's interference along the way. Desperate to defend Russia after the German invasion, he fights back, not with a rifle, but with music.