There's just something about old, dilapidated buildings, and trails in a forest leading to somewhere unknown, that call children and adults, alike, to become adventuresome.
Eleven-year-old Madeline O' Malley, known as Maddie to her family and friends, is a joyful young girl who loves her life on the small family farm in Ireland.
As the brutal Second World War stretches on with no end in sight, life for ordinary Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is fraught with peril and hardship.