本片是叙述11岁犹太裔的罗米克（海利乔奥斯蒙饰），为了躲避纳粹的迫害，被父执辈的友人收容并躲在乡下，与他的孩子们一起生活，期间认识了一些朋友，一起上教堂，听神父讲道。但其中让罗米克不解的是这些孩童常常在深夜去火车站，不知为啥？村中的孩童及犹太人也常遭暗杀及强暴，这种种事件都无意中让罗米克发现了，其间有些本籍非犹裔的村童被误认为犹大人而被送走至集中营，但罗米克因被误为本地村童而捡回一命，是幸还是不幸呢？Polish 12 year-young city Jew Romek gets a crash-course in Catholicsim from his daddy ('stay hanging by your arms till your prayers are perfect') so he can be sent away and escape deportation (Auschwitz?) hiding in the country where the clergy found a host, Gniecio's simple peasant family, posing as their city relative. Gniecio's eldest son Vladek proves rather tyrannical but no brighter then gullible junior Tollo, who takes a role play in catechism class to 'become' a Last Supper character, in his case Jesus, to the extreme, even training for a crucifixion from a tree. Neighbor Batylin and his wife are executed by the Nazis when their illegally kept pig is found. Kluba plays a dirty trick when Gniecio tries to sell his in the city; his son is as problematic for the boys, who meanwhile play involving a single girl-playmate, Maria, who takes Romek in when he's stupidly thrown out by his widowed host by mistake. The horror of war itself suddenly shows its ugly head again, big time and in weird ways with unforeseen consequences...
