A true-life thriller about a young cou­ple, mar­ried one day in Bel­gium, who awake the next day to find out that the Nazis had invad­ed. The young cou­ple decides to flee and the rest of the book is about their efforts to find safe­ty and a way out of Europe. They were stymied not only by bombs, Nazis, inform­ers, cold and near-star­va­tion, but also by the paper wall that kept out refugees from wher­ev­er they sought refuge, includ­ing Por­tu­gal. Illus­tra­tions by Piller-Greenspan, an accom­plished artist, accom­pa­ny this live­ly, clear text print­ed in rather large print with ample lead­ing between lines.