Hilda van Stockum When Janna is suddenly summoned from Germany to join her actor parents in Nazi occupied Amsterdam she is shocked by the Dutch hatred for the Germans Her favorite Nordic tales and Hitler Youth indoctrination have not prepared her for the complexities of living in a house requisitioned by a military friend of her parents or for the violence she sees on the streets With her parents preoccupied by their perplexing adult world of careers and relationships Janna is lonely and full of unwelcome questions It is the house itself which begins to provide real if painful answers to Janna s bewilderment but not before it adds its own set of mysteries to solve A well developed true to life tale for teenagers