This poignant period piece based on the childhood memories of co-writer Hark Bohm delicately depicts a fraught historical moment and a distressing loss of innocence. In the waning days of World War II on the windswept island of Amrum, times are hard and food is scarce. Sensitive 12-year-old Nanning (the remarkable Jasper Billerbeck) starts to understand what coming from a National Socialist family really means. Director Fatih Akin, a friend and former student of Bohm’s, brilliantly captures Nanning’s desire to fit in, as well as the grief he feels when he realizes his parents are not who he thought they were.