While Ireland might have been neutral during WWII, it doesn’t mean that the war didn’t effect the lives of it’s Irish residents. Kitty in Dunkerrin, a small town in the middle of Ireland. One morning she wakes up to find a parachute hanging from one of her lime trees.
The previous night, Belfast was hit by Luftwaffe air raiders so Kitty can only assume the parachute belongs to a German. She later finds the airman raiding her kitchen and injured. Hi name is Oskar and he explains that he has deserted the war and wishes her no harm. Kitty agrees to help Oskar.
Oskar has one mission in mind when he jumps from the airplane…..to find his one true love, Elsa. Elsa was a neighbor girl back home in Germany that he loved dearly, but as Hitler took power and started rounding up the Jews, Elsa’s family rushed her to their family in Belgium for safe keeping. Before Belgium was occupied, she was smuggled out of the country to Ireland thanks to the Kindertransport.
Oskar kept track of Elsa’s whereabouts in the beginning, but lost her after she made it to Ireland so when he sees an opportunity he jumps….literally.
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