There are moments in life when ordinary people are asked to do extraordinary things. In the darkest days of the Second World War, courage did not always wear a uniform. Sometimes it wore patched trousers, scuffed shoes, and a school cap pulled low against the rain. Sometimes bravery lived not on battlefields, but in the hearts of young boys and girls trying to make sense of a world turned upside down. The Green Flash is a story about one such boy.