Little Nico lives in the midst of the Holocaust in a tight-knit community in a small coastal city in Greece, where German officers apply Nazi principles with venomous zeal.  Without realizing that the officers have used him to unwittingly betray his neighbors, the naïve 11-year-old suddenly finds his family in mortal danger.  And though he finds a way to survive the devastation, he will spend the rest of his life seeking forgiveness, not only for himself, but for the people he loves the most.