Synopsis
1943: in a war-torn Finland, 9-year-old Eero’s father is killed at the front. Eero’s mother makes a painful decision to send her only child to safety in neutral Sweden. In Sweden, Eero’s foster mother, Signe, welcomes him to her home but not to her heart. Eero doesn’t speak any Swedish and feels unwelcome in his foster family while missing his mother terribly. All the long-awaited letters from his mother are addressed to Signe, not to him. One day Eero accidentally discovers a letter which he never was supposed to read. During the Second World War over 70.000 war children were sent from Finland to Sweden, Denmark and Norway in the biggest evacuation of children ever experienced in the world.
Klaus Härö