this movie resonate with me on two level . a a kid i be evacuate from london and plant on unwilling host in a country village . while i escape the bombing and have experience which produce treasured memory ( for example hear a nightingale sing one dark night for the very first time ) and enjoy a life i never could have have in london and i miss my family and worry about them . tom be an old man whose wife and child have both die and who live alone in a small country village . a an old man who be now without a wife whose kid have get married and live far away in another province and i be again sometime lonely . the boy mother be a religious fanatic with very odd idea of raise a child . since a deep affection have grow between old tom oakley and this young lad and tom go in search of him and finally rescue him from very odd and dangerous circumstance . at the end of the story there be great tension since due to some bureaucratic ruling it seem that the child be go to lose someone who have develop a love relationship with him .