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When the Germans mount an air attack on their quiet village, fourteen year old Agnes and nine year old Ollie are separated from the rest of their family as they are shuttled to supposed safety with a friend of their grandfather's. As weeks turn into months at a Red Cross refugee camp, the children wonder if they will ever see their mother, father, and grandfather again. But with Christmas coming, Agnes does her best to help Ollie hold onto hope and soon, the two of them gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of Christmas.
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.