It's 1944 and Flora Knox is enjoying a beautiful spring morning in the
Swiss mountains, waiting on a railway station platform for a train. As
Flora watches, a cattle train draws closer to the station, pulling a
fleet of slatted trucks behind. But the trucks don't contain animals.
From within come the sounds of humans, groaning, pleading, on a
desperate journey across the Swiss countryside.
Horrified, Flora runs to the train as it slowly clatters through the
station, and as she does so, a filthy bundle of rags is pushed out into
her arms. Through the slats of the train, she hears a desperate plea:
"Take him. His name is Simon." As the train disappears, Flora is left
holding a tiny baby boy.
Everything looks just the same as it did moments before - the sun, the
sky, the station - but nothing will ever be the same again.