BETSY CARTER presents The Puzzle King

Wednesday, November 18th at 4 p.m.

By a stroke of luck Simon Phelps and Flora Grossman wound up in America before World War II, only to become the last hope for their families' escape from Europe. Dire times breed unexpected heroes. Flora and Simon are two of them.

On a gray morning in 1936, Flora Phelps stands in line at the American consulate in Stuttgart, Germany. She carries a gift for the consul, whom she will bribe in order to help her family get out of Hitler's Germany. This is the story of unlikely heroes, the lively, beautiful Flora and her husband, the brooding, studious Simon, two Jewish immigrants who were each sent to America by their families to find better lives. An improbable match, they meet in New York City and fall in love. Simon inventor of the jigsaw puzzle eventually makes his fortune. Now wealthy, but still outsiders, Flora and Simon become obsessed with rescuing the loved ones they left behind in Europe whose fates are determined by growing anti-Semitism on both sides of the Atlantic.