Summary:

Olek Staniek is an eight year old boy living in the streets and farms of Poland in 1938. After encounters with friendly (and not so friendly) Poles willing to help him, he is swept up in the "windy city" of Warsaw. There, Danuta, a five year old little girl captures his heart in her tiny, but unbreakable grip. Olek, after witnessing a man burned alive in the Luftwaffe Bombing of 1939, is consumed in the Nazi invasion of his beloved Warsaw.
Too soon, the Warsaw Ghetto is completed, and Olek must endure many hardships, including being shipped off to the wickedly feared camp: Treblinka.
There, he is adopted into the Sonderkommando, a special work unit assigned in doing the dirty work around the camp.
A narrow escape during the Treblinka Uprising brings Olek back to the struggles of being a wandering orphan in Poland, only this time plagued with nightmares of the hideous things he witnessed in the past years. Stricken with Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder, Olek must learn to heal, to accept, and to let go of his darling Danuta.