Colette and Ernest, two young siblings, visit their grandparents's home in the countryside of France but face the eruption of World War II.

When the Germans break through the French defences, Ernest, Colette and their grandparents join a migration of refugees heading south.

As the family struggles with food shortages and troubling news about Robert, the children discover a British pilot in the woods.

The children grow defiant as the Germans crack down on the Resistance and force Jewish villagers to wear stars.

The villagers eagerly await the Allied landings hoping they will lead to freedom, but more challenges lie ahead.

During one night in September 1941, a British plane was shot down and crashed into the sea. Meanwhile, the turmoil grips the inhabitants of the village, the Germans set out in search of the pilot, who is said to have parachuted.