At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous whenshe helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
