A beautifully evocative coming-of-age tale adapted from the acclaimed autobiographical novel of the same name by Lorena Mazzetti, the entire story is viewed through the eyes of the central character Penny and the simple events which take place in the summer of 1944 until the tragic conclusion of the War. These include the friendships established with the peasant children, school, religious problems, the growing awareness of a cruel, inescapable reality, the discovery of the first furtive contacts of love and the magnetism of Uncle Wilhelm, an idealistic intellectual and advocate of justice...