It's 1944 and 11-year-old Max Rosen and his younger sister Zena are on the run from Nazi soldiers. After they are forced into a ghetto and their father is taken by soldiers in the middle of the night, the children aren't sure who they can turn to so they run away to the forest, where they are sure they will be safe. But when war pushes out across the land, the children find themselves in danger with explosions and fighting practically in their lap. Can Max protect himself and his sister and survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion? A fictionalized story based on a true event.
