You can’t choose who you love.

Even in Nazi Germany in 1942.

Ten-year-old Peppi doesn’t think it matters.

Joining the ranks of the Deutsches Jungvolk, Peppi swears to avenge his father's death on the eastern front, even as his mother desperately fights to save her only son from the clutches of National Socialism. But he’s not listening.

When the RAF drops an errant load of bombs on his village, Peppi becomes a local hero after rescuing victims in the aftermath. But not everyone sees the hero, especially his Stamfürhrer, who only sees a little boy who needs to learn who is worth saving.

And who should be left to die.

It’s a simple idea and Peppi thinks he understands. Until he falls under the spell of Patrina, a young Gypsy girl who unlocks the strange yearnings of first love.

As everyone around him is swept up in Himmler's crusade to purify Germany, Peppi will have to face the brutal truth of who he has become and convince the lone Gypsy girl who has captured his heart to trust him before he loses her forever.

Set against the backdrop of Porajmos – Hitler’s campaign to eradicate the Gypsy population in Europe - this poignant and bittersweet story of innocence lost set will move you. Because you really can’t choose who you love. All you can do is try to save them.