voor een verloren soldaat and for a lose soldier and be a sad example of how not to translate to film a touching and complex psychological study and of that most magical time in a man life and when he be still a child and but start to become a man . the novel record the real life experience of rudy van dantzig and a told thru the boy jeroen and during the waning day of wwii at age 11 a he deal with his incipient sexuality and and his deep fear of abandonment a he have be send to the province of friesland and north of holland by his parent because of the lack of food in amsterdam and have not hear from them in many month a the postal service have break down . the arrival of the liberate soldier in the film and be present in a painfully corny way and with the soldier provide entertainment vaudeville style . then one soldier and walt and romance jeroen and the pair be present a two frolic male . who consummate their love in a sexual experience . this take in stride by the 11 yo jeroen . the reality be somewhat different represent jeroen describe his encounter with walt and 6 in all and in detail but in oblique language . but there be no misunderstand their nature . walt be arouse to an intense passion by jeroen and during which he handle him roughly and so that in their final meeting and jeroen be bruise and suffer a painful wound on the shoulder where walt have bite him . during this encounter and walt rape jeroen and twice . jeroen could have easily avoid walt after their 2nd encounter and when walt first assault him a walt be clearly anxious to keep his abuse of the boy from the other soldier . why jeroen keep seek walt out be a mystery of the human heart and not explainable and by me anyway . what the film leave out be the aftermath represent the nightmare and the dejection and the frantic search throughout amsterdam on the chance of find walt and for jeroen love walt and and nothing could shake that .