An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi...

"Cuando Bruno decidi̤ acompąar a su amigo Shmuel a la c̀mara de gas, ¿qǔ ocurri̤ con su hermana, Gretel, y sus padres? ¿Sobrevivi̤ su familia a la guerra y los estragos del nazismo? Gretel Fernsby es ahora una anciana de 91 ąos que vive c̤modamente en un apartamento en una de las zonas m̀s acomodadas de Londres. Cuando una joven familia se muda al piso de abajo, Gretel no puede evitar entablar amistad con Henry, el hijo pequęo de la pareja....