A small town in Canada; an ordinary family. Two strangers ring the doorbell. The family has been expecting them, and they are invited inside. But neither the doctor, his wife and daughter, nor anyone else in town except Franklin, knows that the two men are German spies.
What happens to the Sarnia Bridge, to the Germans, to Franklin and his family, to the neighbors and the whole community, is woven into a fascinating web, set against the society of that time, in this sensitive novel, Across the Bridge.