13-year-old Lucas Mandel has it all: a loving family, nice home but nothing prepared him for what happened when the Nazi's take his entire family away to a concentration camp. Miraculously he escapes and survives by clinging to the one thing that gives him hope, his faith. But when he falls into the hands of the Hitler Youth he discovers they have a secret.... When the Edelweiss Pirates come across a death train packed with Jewish prisoners bound for a concentration camp they do the unthinkable... but at what cost?