Dublin, 1943, and Roisin Tierney has changed her identity to evade the
police in Nazi-occupied Ireland. With spies and informers a constant
threat, Roisin must choose her friends carefully, and keep her Jewish
heritage hidden at all costs.
With her mother a prisoner in Spike Island Concentration Camp, and her
father shipped abroad for forced labour, Roisin wants to resist. But who
can you trust in a country ruthlessly policed by the Gestapo? Her friend
Kevin is sympathetic, but has a politician father who carries out German
orders. Her other friend Mary is anti-Nazi, but has secrets of her own
to conceal. Some Irish people are Nazi sympathisers, some reluctant
collaborators, and some fighting with the resistance, so it's hard to
know where to turn.
But Roisin knows time is not on her side - and sooner or later she'll
have to risk everything for the chance of a better future.