Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
