Jean always loved her wooden toy box, akin to a small travelling trunk. Its mysterious origins were unknown to her all her life. The discovery one day that her father was not her birth father, but an American soldier, created a massive shock for Jean. She realized she was not who she thought she was. Now an adult, she decided to embark on a search for the American soldier an emotional roller coaster lasting seven years. Her tenacity and determination to find her birth father led her, in the end, to the biggest surprise of her life.