Brigitta Gisella Geltrich-Ludgate was separated from her father due to war years when she was four years old and did not see him again until she was twelve years old. Readjusting to one another was not an easy task. She often preferred to have someone else to be her father. This is reflected in the life of Resa, the young heroine of "Two Summers of Adjustment," who prefers to have Joe Ferguson as her father than Brad Barclay, her true father.