sentences:  The story begins with the Japanese army’s defeat of the China forces occupying Hong Kong on 25 December 1941.Nicholas is an eleven-year-old boy whose parents have both suddenly disappeared in the chaos of war breaking out.As the Japanese come to do a home to home search, three loyal family servants, Tang, his wife Ah Mee, and the gardener Ah Kwan take Nicholas and they escape to Kowloon as Hong Kong Island is no longer safe.