Hope runs the North Star Bakery while struggling with her divorce, her daughter's resentment, and her grandmother Mamie's advancing Alzheimer's disease.

Matt reveals to Hope over dinner that the bank is planning to foreclose on the North Star Bakery.

Mamie has a rare lucid day and asks Hope and Annie to take her to the beach to watch the stars come out.

At the beach, Mamie throws Star Pies into the sea and hands Hope a list of family names, asking her to go to Paris.

Gavin identifies Mamie's beach ritual as a Rosh Hashanah observance and reveals that his own mother survived a Holocaust concentration camp.

Hope searches Holocaust memorial records and finds every Picard on Rose's list was killed at Auschwitz except for Alain, whose fate is unknown.

Hope flies to Paris and visits the Holocaust Museum, where she learns the vast scale of Jewish deportations from France.

Holocaust survivor Olivier Berr tells Hope how the Picard family was rounded up and deported, then gives her Alain's address in the Marais.

Hope meets Alain face-to-face in Paris, and he is overwhelmed to learn that his sister Rose survived the war.

Hope receives a call reporting that Mamie has suffered a stroke; Alain immediately arranges plane tickets for both of them to fly back.

Hope confronts Rob about putting his new girlfriend before Annie, and Annie begins to warm toward her mother for the first time.

Hope asks Gavin to accompany her to New York City to search for Jacob Levy, taking a step toward trusting him.

Hope finds Jacob at Battery Park standing at the railing gazing at the Statue of Liberty, and introduces herself as Rose's granddaughter.

Jacob and Alain arrive at Mamie's hospital bedside, and Mamie wakes from her coma at the sound of Jacob's voice.

Hope reads Rose's final letter urging her not to hide from love, then calls Gavin and opens her heart to him.

The story follows Hope, a divorced Cape Cod baker struggling to hold her life together while her grandmother Mamie's Alzheimer's disease progresses and the family bakery faces foreclosure. When Mamie reveals her family's secret and asks Hope to find out what happened to her relatives in Paris, Hope embarks on a journey that takes her from Cape Cod to France and then to New York. She uncovers her grandmother's Holocaust history, finds her long-lost great-uncle Alain, and ultimately tracks down Jacob Levy, the love of Rose's life. The quest reunites Mamie with Jacob and Alain before she passes away peacefully. Along the way, Hope confronts her own walls around love and finally opens her heart to Gavin.

Hope's quest to uncover Mamie's past and open her heart to love.

Annie tells Hope that Mamie keeps calling her by the unfamiliar name Leona, puzzling both of them.

Hope visits Rob to ask him to set boundaries with Annie; Rob implies he had an emotional affair during their marriage.

Hope discovers a Jewish bakery in the Marais selling the same pastries as the North Star Bakery but shaped differently.

Hope and Alain visit a Muslim bakery near the Grand Mosque and find Star Pies and other recipes matching those at the North Star.

Hope realizes from a wartime photograph at the Grand Mosque that Mamie was visibly pregnant when she escaped Paris.

Rose (in memory) recalls being sheltered by the Haddam family at the Grand Mosque, exchanging pastry recipes while waiting to escape France.

Nabi tells Hope that Rose shaped her pastries into stars as a private tribute to Jacob, who vowed to love her as long as stars fill the sky.

Rose (in memory) relives the moment Ted returned from Paris with news that Jacob and the entire Picard family had died.

Annie compiles her own list of phone numbers and begins independently calling people to search for Jacob Levy after hearing his story.

Hope contacts interfaith organizations hoping to trace Jacob Levy through his Christmas birthday and religious community connections.

Elida's grandmother tells Hope about besa, the cultural obligation to help those in need, and reveals her family sheltered Jews during the war.

Hope and Gavin drive to New York City and discover that Jacob Levy is no longer at the address they were given.

Jacob tells Hope his full story: the French resistance, his capture by French police, and survival through Auschwitz driven by love for Rose.

Mamie passes away peacefully in her sleep with Jacob and Alain at her side.

Hope learns from Mamie's lawyer that Josephine realized how deeply she loved her daughter only near the very end of her life.

While Hope's main journey involves uncovering her grandmother's past, her story is shaped equally by smaller revelations and emotional turning points along the way. From mysterious clues like Mamie's unfamiliar name for Annie to the discovery of shared recipes across cultural traditions, each scene adds texture to the family's hidden history. Hope pieces together the wartime networks that kept Rose alive, including a Muslim family's generosity, while also navigating her troubled relationship with her ex-husband and her daughter. The search for Jacob Levy threads through these scenes, driven by unlikely allies including an Albanian grandmother in New York, before ending with Mamie's peaceful death and an unexpected message from Josephine delivered from beyond the grave.

The secondary moments and encounters that shape Hope's family revelations.

Hope overhears bakery customers tell Annie that Mamie met Ted in wartime Spain and modeled the North Star on her family's Parisian bakery.

Mamie writes a letter to her attorney and a list of Picard family names on a rare lucid morning before the beach trip.

Mamie declares to Hope that she is Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim, insisting that mankind creates the divisions but all people worship the same God.

Hope learns she must travel to Paris in person when Holocaust memorial staff explain that the crucial records cannot be accessed remotely.

Hope walks across a Paris bridge covered in padlocks and suddenly recognizes it as the setting from Mamie's fairy tale about a waiting princess.

Alain tells Hope that Jacob Levy was the love of Rose's life and that Jacob survived Auschwitz, still believing Rose was alive.

Rose (in memory) relives the night she failed to convince her father to flee Paris and said goodbye to her family home forever.

Hope and Alain discuss on their flight home why Josephine's birth certificate shows a date suggesting she was born after Rose left France.

Rose (in memory) relives her fiftieth birthday watching Josephine go into labor and Josephine choosing to name her daughter Hope.

Hope spots a highway sign connecting the names Jacob and Joseph and wonders for the first time if Josephine was actually Jacob's daughter.

Jacob tells Hope that he and Rose were secretly married before she fled Paris, making him Josephine's father and Hope's biological grandfather.

Jacob confirms that Ted almost certainly knew Jacob was alive when he traveled to Paris but lied to Rose to protect their family.

Jacob passes away the morning after Mamie's death and is buried beside her so the two can finally rest together.

Hope learns from Mamie's lawyer that Jacob left her over three million dollars and Mamie left enough money to buy the bakery outright.

Hope sees two stars crossing the sky side by side, believes they are Mamie and Jacob reunited, and calls Gavin.

This pool traces the key moments of revelation and decision that reframe everything Hope believed about her family and herself. Beginning with early clues about Mamie's Parisian origins, the events build toward discoveries about Jewish identity, wartime survival, and a secret marriage that changes Hope's entire sense of who she is. Hope confronts the painful possibility that her grandfather Ted may have lied to protect his family, and learns that Jacob Levy is her biological grandfather. As the story resolves, legacy takes on new meaning when Hope discovers she can secure the bakery and carry the family tradition forward. The pool closes with Hope finally embracing the possibility of love after a lifetime of keeping her heart closed.

The discoveries and decisions that transform Hope's understanding of herself and love.