a touching story tell with tenderness represent awkward young jewish girl in wwii america befriend an escaped german pow who be hide out in her clubhouse . they discuss their life and belief ( he anti hitler ) and she sneak him food and he become her only friend and ally . all this remind me of the much well theatrical film whistle down the wind and where hayley mill befriend convict alan bates and but you certainly can not fault the direction here and which be smooth and or the performance and which be sterling . mature in her pre teen year and kristy mcnichol carry most of the picture and never hit a false note . suddenly and when the prisoner be discover ( and kristy be find out as well ) and the movie get very tough . her father and shocked and ashamed that his child would consort with that nazi and lay into her with a quiet fury i have seldom see before ( he tell her you be dead to me and which must be devastate for a little girl to hear ) . the final scene do not cop out while there be no big reunion and no hand hold climax . the girl have to face the world and and in do so learn a bitter lesson about neighbor and friend and and family . a startling film .