As a small boy, Henrik watches his world crumble around him as Germany falls under Nazi control and his Jewish friends are sent away. In his own unique telling, Henrik confides in the reader the events leading up to World War II, as his family is plunged into fear and uncertainty.

When his young sister, Greta, is stolen by Germans for Aryan testing, and his mother is injured during the kidnapping, Henrik’s childhood is cut short. Determined and brave, Henrik begins his search for Greta in the ruins of war.

Unfailingly loyal to his sister and those who help and befriend him, Henrik will play his part in the fight against this strange new world of violence and oppression. And love will arise from the fragments of broken lives.