During the winter of 1942 nine-year-old Srulik escapes from the Warsaw Ghetto of occupied Poland and wanders through the snow-covered, freezing cold woodlands. Hunger and the cold drive him back towards the villages, where he begs for food in the guise of Jurek, a Catholic orphan. Some people, such as a mother whose husband and son have left for the woods to join the resistance, help him whilst others denounce him to the authorities as a Jew in order to pocket the reward money. Time and again Jurek is forced to run for his life, hunted by the SS, German soldiers and Polish anti-Semites. Academy Award winner Pepe Danquart’s film adaptation of Uri Orlev’s eponymous novel tells the true story of Yoram Friedman.