Peter, a five-year-old
boy, embarks on an extraordinary journey through war-torn Europe, travelling
with his parents from a small Hungarian town to Austria and then to Germany.
Along the way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another:
sleeping in a tent and then under the night sky, discovering a disused brick
factory, catching butterflies in the meadows, before Peter realises that the
adventure is a nightmare, as he watches bombs fall from the blue sky outside
Vienna and starts lessons with his mother in Bergen-Belsen. Drawn against a
background of terror, starvation, and his father's and grandmother's deaths,
this is a story of survival, of love between mother and son, and of enduring
hope in the face of unspeakable hardship.
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