In 1944, Magda Denes was ten years old and living in Budapest with her mother, adored brother Ivan, grandparents, aunt and cousin Erwin. Hungarian Jews were finding their lives more and more desperate, Indiscriminately murdered, tortured and abused by the brutal occupying German forces, they were barricaded into underground ghettoes. Magda's grandfather died of starvation. Ivan and Erwin, both resistance fighters, were shot. Somehow the depleted family escaped, made their way to Spain, and then by boat to the free world - to America, and to a new life.