Xenophobia, simply put, is the fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners. And at nine years old, Alan Holmes learns just how painful it can be to bear the brunt of such an animosity. It's 1939, and Alan's parents decide to send him to boarding school in England. Far away from his happy home in France, the young boy is suddenly faced with not only the unchecked, pitiless torments inflicted by his English schoolmates, but also the harsh treatment of...