The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place. His father a brutalIrish nationalist demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mothera soft... » 

The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place. His father a brutalIrish nationalist demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mothera softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning ofthe war encourages them to speak German. All Hugo wants to do is speakEnglish. English is after all what the other children in Dublin speak.English is what they use when they hunt down Hugo or Eichmann as they dubhim in the streets of Dublin and English is what they use when they bring himto trial and execute him at a mock seaside court. Out of this fear andconfusion Hugo tries to build a balanced view of the world to turn the twistedlogic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberationbut not before this little boy has uncovered the dark and longburied secretsthat lie at the bottom of his parents wardrobe. «