A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

One man's escape is another's prison… Midwinter break provides the aristocratic boys of Harlebone School with eight weeks of freedom from their studies, harsh schoolmasters, and each other. But Wilstaire Cathermay-Gravence plots a more permanent escape. With one brother dead in a foreign war, his father succumbing to madness, and fears over his own sanity looming, Wil runs away from the school and from his family. But the escape he dreamed of is...