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Imagine the fun: a little boy grabs a bird to turn it into a rainbow in feathers. He carefully paints the bird and then releases it into the sky, to the grey flock. The birds are puzzled: what is this painted monstrosity? Blinded by the bright colours, they begin to attack the poor thing, not believing that it is a member of the flock, that it is the same as them... And now the dead and torn body of the painted bird falls into the grass, gathering children around it, who look at the corpse with curiosity. Cruel? Not for the realities of the Second World War, when a six-year-old boy, who looks either like a Gypsy or a Jew, finds himself in a strange village. He calls for his mother, but she is not there. Instead, the boy sees only death, violence, abuse, perversion, blood, he himself becomes a victim of medieval savagery and persecution, he watches the miller gouge out his hired man's eyes with a spoon so that he won't look at his wife... How can a painted bird survive in a flock of grey? Wash off the paint and become one of them...