In her novel, the award-winning Dutch writer Wilma Geldof worked out the fate of her country's youngest war fighter, Freddie Oversteegen, who actively joined the fight against the Nazis at the age of fourteen. Together with her sister, she lured high-ranking officers of the German army into the forest for supposed meetings, where the men were then shot. As a fresh teenager, she experienced the war really close, every day she experienced fear for her life, which was mixed with courage and pride.