Growing up in a Polish village on the fringes of a deep pine forest, gives Mala the happiest childhood she could have hoped for. But, as the German invasion begins, her beloved village becomes a ghetto and her family and friends reduced to starvation. But Mala takes matters into her own hands. With only her cat and the strength of the stories taught by her family, she walks away from everything she holds dear. A true story of one little girl's remarkable survival in the shadow of the Holocaust.