Nine year old French girl Lysette is thrown into the chaos of war when
she runs for her life from a bomb dropped on her neighbourhood in
Aachen, Germany. Travelling through the Netherlands, then a long trek
through Belgium, she arrives in the town of Sedan in northern France
where she is taken into a monastery. There, she is sheltered from the
horrors of war. But outside, the war rages on.
Local resistance groups fight Gestapo soldiers, and secret messages are
sent across northern Europe and Belgium Closer to home, the Gestapo are
searching for 'the girl in the blue uniform' after Lysette had witnessed
a murder whilst in the Netherlands. The reality of war is contrasted
with the calmness of the monastery. Will Lysette ever see her parents
again?