Jurek has assumed countless different identities, lived with numerous families and worked as a secret agent for the Resistance. He was raised in an orphanage and he knows how to speak the language of dogs. All this at the tender age of 14! His story begins in Warsaw on the eve of WWII and ends in Paris after the liberation of the city. We witness the darkest hours of the past century through the eyes of an extraordinary boy who never loses his sense of wonder. Jurek s adventure becomes an incredible lesson in survival.