The concept is a Black Jewish Girl in 1940s Germany fleeing from the Nazi Regime, and the trials and tribulations of her journey from an oppressed Minority in Nazi Germany, to a free British woman living in The United Kingdom.
Her name is Gisela Weber and she was born in 1927, and left Germany in 1940 after the Invasion of Poland in 1939. As they were leaving, a Nazi Soldier came into their home and took her parents and brother, but Gisela manages to escape, running into a woodland near her family's farmhome. A few days later, she runs into a sympathetic old farmer who hides her in a barn until it is safe to leave, and they part ways, with Gisela running back into the forest with nothing but some bread. Another few days later she is hiding in an old fishing shed as some Nazi patrollers scour the area, even entering that shed she was in, but she was safe. After they leave, she bolts for a boat resting on the creek, and she goes down the creek on it, eventually drifting out into the English Channel, where she landed in then-captured France. It is now November 1940 and The Second World War is in full swing.
As she swings from house to house hiding from Nazis, she gains an immense knowledge not many people will experience. She gains the knowledge that suffering is the reason why the world goes round. In her mind, the world is (correctly) based on a binary system. Without 0, there's no 1. Without 1, there's no zero. Same for Peace nad suffering. Nobody suffers without peace, but nobody can be at peace without suffering. As she formulates this idea of hers, she starts writing. She starts writing all of her ideas into a journal. But her cover is blown, and She is found and taken into Nazi captivity in Germany, in 1942. All through the suffering, the pain, and the hardships, she still writes her ideas down. 3 Months in captivity, she gets a chance of escape when she discovers a hole in a fence. She takes her chance and runs with her journal into an oh-so familiar wood. She runs further and discovers the same farm she hid in the early stages of the war and finds the old man, who hides her again. In her hiding, she meets a group of other hiders, including a boy a year older than her, and they bond. When the Nazis closed in, she and that boy, Josef, ran away to a dock, where they managed to convince the dock owner to give them a boat, since Josef turned out to be an expert Sailorman. They grabbed a yacht and sailed out through the channel and down to Ireland, where they hid for over a year, enjoying a lifestyle that finally felt free. In 1944, Josef applied for the British Military and was accepted. where the two of them are given a small apartment, where they stay peacefully until June of that year. Josef is deployed to Normandy beach on June 6th, 1944, in an event known as D-Day. A few days after he was deployed, the radio spiked on by announcing that the soldiers involved in D-Day would be returning home, and Gisela is out the door in minutes, rushing to the area that they would arrive at. While she waits for Josef, she sees him in the crowd. She runs over to him and embraces him, but then he bends down on one knee, holding a ring. She exclaims yes, and kisses him on the spot. a few months later, after their 18th birthdays, they get married in a small ceremony, and settle in a small home in Birmingham, and before she knows it, she's pregnant, due November 1945. Then, on May 8th, 1945, the radio comes on with beautiful news. The announcer proclaims that the war is over for good, and that Hitler is dead. Josef and Gisela start screaming in joy, and rush out to celebrate this momentous occasion. A few weeks later, Gisela and Josef decide to become true British citizens, changing their names to Giselle and Joseph. After they change their names, Giselle reads in the newspaper that many jewish people that were liberated from concentration camps had been placed in German Cities, including Hamburg, where she reads that Mr. and Mrs. Johann Weber were staying. Giselle jumps up in immense joy and rushes to Joseph, exclaiming that they have to go to Hamburg for her parents. A few weeks later, They land in Hamburg and rush to a Hotel, and ask for her parents. The Book ends in a heart-touching moment of Giselle rushing to her parents and embracing them.
And that's that! How was it? I'd also like to mention that writing this message alone took over an hour.