Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust.
Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a unifor.
All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with.
He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust