"David lay quite still in the darkness of the camp, waiting for the signal.

" 'You must get away tonight,' the man had told him. 'Stay awake so that you're ready just before the guard is changed. When you see me strike a match, the current will be cut off and you can climb over - you'll have half a minute for it, no more.' "

David escapes from a concentration camp and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone - who can he trust? What will await him back home? All the while he knows that they may catch up with him...

Voted one of the best children's books of the twentieth century in the keith Barker Millennium Awards.