The Adventures of Cadet Lehner

15-year-old Paul makes his final decision to leave home when his Jewish friend, Eva, is taken away by the Nazis. The only way Paul can get away from home is by enrolling in a cadet school. Soon, his school is evacuated and that is when Paul's adventures really begin. He survives the end-of-war-turmoils and spends some months in a prisoner of war and disarmed enemy forces camp in Germany. It is there that he begins his career as a surgeon. After being discharged from the camp, Paul and his friend, Theo, explore postwar Germany by rail. Young, intelligent and lucky, they manage to get jobs at a US Army Station Hospital. They get by all the better with the little extra they make on the black market....