It’s 1918, and the world is at war. John’s father is in the trenches, his mother works in a munitions factory, and his teacher insists that even John is a soldier—fighting enemy children he’s never met. But everything changes when John wanders into the woods and meets Jan, a German boy. In a moment that defies the hatred around them, the boys share a quiet connection and imagine a future shaped not by war, but by peace.
