WWII: A German orphan girl befriends a 17-year old French forced laborer in rural Bavaria.

In WWI Germany, 10-year old Dagmar has just lost her beloved twin brother Doug and her family in a bomb attack. She escapes to Bavaria with a young girl who worked in her parents' bakery and they find shelter with the bakery girl's ex-fiance's family. Dagmar just doesn't feel comfortable in this strange family but soon finds a good friend: Laurent, a 17-year-old French alien employee. Laurent is tormented by August, the "head of the family", but cannot defend himself because as soon as he causes a conflict he will be sent into an approved school in France which is even worse. Dagmar and Laurent become very close and become almost like brother and sister; they are all they have and Dagmar even falls a bit in love with Laurent. One day August sees how Laurent hugs Dagmar, provokes a conflict, and at the end Laurent is sent back to France. Dagmar is desperate, thinking she'll never see Laurent again. 10 years later, Dagmar is still in the Bavarian village; August has died and Dagmar now runs his farm. A French group visits the village; among them is--Laurent.—Smoothhoney