After the war, Karen learned her mother and brothers had died in the Dachau concentration camp, but she could find no information about her father, whom she believes may be in Palestine. Odenheim tells Kitty that Karen may not be an orphan and explains that the teen's father, Johann Clement, a well-known scientist, sent her to Denmark at the beginning of the war when she was six. After spending a couple of days with Karen, Kitty informs Sutherland that she would like to take the girl to America, but later is disappointed when Karen asks for time to consider her offer. Ari approves of the ship and asks Mandria to provide food, numerous radio speakers and a jeep in addition to several lorries. The next afternoon, Ari joins Mandria at the harbor to inspect a dilapidated freighter, the Olympia. That evening, Kitty attends a party at Sutherland's and expresses her interest in Karen and the general agrees to arrange for Kitty to take Karen out of Caraolos for a day. Ari explains that Jewish intelligence intends this bold operation as a symbolic act to coincide with the upcoming United Nations vote on the partition of Palestine to provide the Jews with their own state. The following afternoon in the nearby village of Famagusta, Ari Ben Canaan, a Palestinian-born agent of the Haganah underground military organization, his associate Reuben and David, meet with Cyprian businessman Mandria to request assistance in transporting six hundred Jews to Palestine. In the infirmary, Kitty is drawn to the calm maturity of fourteen-year-old orphaned German refugee Karen Clement Hansen, who is the only one able to contend with the bitter, distrustful teen Dov Landau, who is recovering from an escape attempt.
The next day, Caldwell takes Kitty to Caraolos where David Ben Ami welcomes her and introduces her to camp physician Dr. When Caldwell escorts Kitty back to her taxi and makes a disparaging remark about Sutherland's penchant for helping Jews, Kitty abruptly changes her mind and declares she will assist at the camp. Sutherland asks Kitty if she would consider helping out at the camp infirmary, but Kitty declines, explaining that she knows nothing about the Jewish situation. Fred Caldwell arrives to complain that the arrival of the refugees has prompted a series of shortages. Kitty confides that after suffering a miscarriage and completing her duty with a public health organization in Greece, she remains unsure of her immediate future. Bruce Sutherland, a friend of her deceased news photographer husband, to learn details of his death.
In 1947 on the British occupied island of Cyprus, American nurse and recently widowed Katherine "Kitty" Fremont witnesses the transport of Jewish refugees from the intercepted ship Star of David to a displaced persons camp in nearby Caraolos.
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