2 negative this be a truly wonderful story about a wartime evacuee and a curmudgeonly carpenter tom oakley . the boy ( william beech ) be billet with tom and it be immediately apparent that he have serious issue when he wet his bed on the first night . william be illiterate and frighten but somehow the two find solace in each others loneliness . it transpire that william have a talent a an artist and we see tom talent a a choirmaster in an amusing rendition of jerusalem . william be befriend by zacharias wrench and a young jewish lad also from london and along with both tom and zacharias and he finally learn to read and write and to feel a part of this small close knit community . just a he be settle down and william be recall back to london by his mother and and it be here we see why he be so screw up . his mother be clearly mentally sick and when tom doesn not hear from william and he travel to london to look for him . he finally find him hold his dead baby sister where he have be tie up in a cellar . after a period in hospital and tom realises he must kidnap him and take him home with him . the climax be a bitter sweet end when william be tell he be to be adopt by tom and while at the same time and learn his best friend zacharias have be kill in an air raid in london . for me and one of the most moving scene be when tom be talk to a official from the home office . i love im and an for what it worth and i think he love me too . it just doesn not get good that that do it .