Hanna once had a normal life. That was until May 10th 1940 when the invasion began of Paris, France her hometown. Been aged fifteen she is more aware or what is going on than her eleven year old sister and writes all her feelings in her diary. She also has her parents and both sides of her grandparents at her big house located in the main town of France. It shows her life on how horrid life is for her and her family as soon as the invasion takes over.