An island in the Baltic Sea in the summer of 1939. Thirteen-year-old Karl has come to work as an assistant to Hasselbond, the lighthouse master. Hasselbond at first rejects the boy because of his age, but Karl, who has grown up in an orphanage strugg...
The story of the boy who, after the girl he worked so hard to get breaks up with him, goes on a journey to get her back and discovers on the way what he's really been searching for....