Joan Allen narrates this breathtaking chronicle about the battle over the very survival of centuries of European artistic heritage in a journey through seven countries, the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare during the Third Reich and the Second World War. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history. But young art professionals as well as ordinary heroes, from truck drivers to department store clerks, fought back with an extraordinary effort to safeguard, rescue and return the millions of lost, hidden and stolen treasures.