Basia lives in a happy home with Mum, Dad and Purry the cat. Every year she waits for her Hanukkah candy. Until one day a war breaks out and everything changes. They have to move into a ghetto, from where its inhabitants are transported to an unknown place every so often, never to return. Fortunately, Basia manages to hide in Aunt Lucy’s hospitable home. She lives there under a different name. She misses her parents, but also has friends there and feels safe. Unfortunately, she has to flee again, change her name again. And then again…