A true story about what it means to be human " ... because when I began to understand the magnitude of the catastrophe, when I realized what the experience would do to me, I decided not to cry about what had happened to us, nor to hate it - but to forgive. I was eighteen years old, and the future was still ahead of me." Shlomo Graber Protected and cared for, little Shlomo Graber grows up surrounded by his three younger siblings in a small Hungarian town. His wise grandfather and his loving, caring mother shape the boy's happy childhood years. He is 14 years old when his life takes a tragic and completely unexpected turn: He and his parents are deported by the Nazis. With his irrepressible will to live, an unshakable belief in himself, but also with charity and sometimes even humor, he survives.