Winter 1943, Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Two people are making their way through the underground passages of the city sewer - a fourteen-year-old teenager Marian and his stepfather Anton. They carry food into the ghetto, a walled area of the city where the Nazis herded hundreds of thousands of Jews. Thus begins the gripping tale of Marian's meeting with the young Jew Jüzek and their friendship that will eventually lead both back to the ghetto at the height of the heroic Jewish uprising against the Nazis. Only one of them will be able to return. To whom? And how? For this and other fascinating books about teenage heroes and their extraordinary adventures during the war, Israeli writer Uri Orlev was awarded many literary prizes in different countries of the world.