CaptPerseus
A quiet Sunday dessert turns into a doorway to the past when Thomas's mother hands him a package wrapped in an old Croatian newspaper. Inside is Mr. Morris - the battered teddy bear Thomas hasn't seen since childhood. The name on the box, Eva, is a ghost from another life, and her letter pulls the family into a story Thomas never truly left behind.
In the spring of 1992, while Thomas grumbled about tidying his room in peaceful Pécs, a Croatian-Hungarian family fled a burning Sarajevo, racing through checkpoints, curfews, and terror. Through eight-year-old Peter's eyes, horror becomes myth: soldiers are trolls, gunfire is dark magic, and his parents are the wizards keeping him alive. One shared lunch, one small act of kindness, and one bear bind two families together - until a message, decades later, reveals the price that kindness couldn't prevent.
Tender, harrowing, and unforgettable, this is a story about innocence in wartime, the long echo of refuge, and how a simple toy can carry a lifetime of love and loss.