By pure coincidence, a photograph found on the internet by chance of a renowned American opera singer, Caterina Fabiani, throws the lives of Paul Kromberger and his daughter Sophie into complete chaos. Paul, well advanced in his years, appears to recognize the image as that of his deceased wife Evelyn, Sophie's mother. Unable to convince her controlling-and-stubborn-to-a-fault father otherwise, Sophie sets off for New York to seek out this mysterious stranger.

Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story tells the personal and painful stories of Afro-American-German Brown Babies in a world where biracial, bicultural children were unwanted, ignored and forgotten. Abandoned by enemy nations and their families. Brown Babies: The Mishlingskinder Story shows how these children overcame extraordinary obstacles and honors the African-American woman who fought to save their lives when no one else would. Many archival images appear courtesy of the AFRO American Newspapers Archives.