Alan & Naomi

Alan is a fourteen year old Jewish boy living in World War II era New York whose parents ask him to help a troubled young neighbor girl named Naomi who is in an almost catatonic state most of the time, except when she screams at approaching strangers. Naomi is a French refugee who saw the Nazis kill her father when they lived in occupied Paris and was deeply traumatized by the experience. Reluctant at first Alan agrees and soon becomes close friends with the girl.