Berlin, May 4th 1945. Three Hitler Youth boys hide deep in a drain beneath the
city. Above them the devastation and horror of war has dwindled to random
bursts of resistance and the dreaded terror of occupation. Only weeks ago it
was all a game, but now time is up for these young lives, whose remaining
options are almost unfathomable. They promised it wouldn’t come to this.
When children are trained in the terrible art of nationalism how grown up can
they get? How blind can they be? And how quickly can they turn?
