The life of a WW2 evacuee collides with the world of a boy from the present day, in this timeslip adventure.
Cheeky Jimmy Sweeney lives in the East End of London with his ten brothers and sisters. WW2 breaks out and he is evacuated to the country. He’s now an outcast, a ‘vac’, bullied by the local kids and treated cruelly by Mrs Cribbins, the woman with whom he's been billeted.
The story jumps to 2011, to twelve-year-old Nathan Pepper who has just moved from London to the country. One night he awakens to the sound of crying. He follows the sound to discover six-year-old Jimmy in the attic.
The attic is a bridge between the two eras and over time the boys become friends. But Nathan discovers that something terrible is about to happen to Jimmy and realises it’s up to him to save his friend.