This is the story of the White Rose, the resistance group established by brother and sister, Hans and Sophie Scholl of Forchtenberg when they were students at the University of Munich. Their lives become entangled in the changing politics of Germany from the years of the Republic through the rise of the Nazis and war. The reader is taken into the workings of the Hitler Youth and how it molded the minds of a generation, and the impact of protest on the Scholl family.