This is a very moving account of a young girl’s life in a children’s home. The story is set in Germany, shortly after WW2....Halinka has one good person in her life, her mother’s sister, who loves her but can rarely see her.
“When a kindly junk dealer gives a group of poor French children a headless toy horse, the broken toy becomes their only source of fun as they race down the narrow streets of their village. ”