A terrified six-year-old Polish Boy runs through the woods. His mother shouts, "Go faster my love." He does, and the Nazis kill her. Chielik is plagued by unanswered questions. He is a Jew. In 1945, after the war and surviving in the Black Forest, Chielik struggles to come to terms with his life. The Polish Boy is now a man who fought with the partisans and won his own freedom.