Goodnight Mister Tom (película)

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Tom has long since withdrawn from life after losing his wife and child to scarlet fever many years before, while Willie is a quiet young boy who comes from an abusive home and is apprehensive of Tom.

He also meets and becomes best friends with a Jewish boy, Zacharias "Zach" Wrench.

However, shortly after Willie's tenth birthday, Tom receives a letter from Mrs.

Beech seems better after suffering a mental breakdown, but when Willie presents her with gifts that the locals from Little Weirwold had given him, and tells her about some of his friends, she accuses him of stealing and is angry he had been interacting with girls and Jews.

Tom has an instinct that Willie is in danger, so he travels to London with his dog Sammy.

While speaking with Zach, Willie learns about the concept of sex, something his mother raised him to believe was "something dirty" and unacceptable, and realises that his mother herself had been having a relationship with another man, which resulted in the birth of Trudy.

Eventually, Stelton and some social workers come to Tom's house with the news that Willie's mother is dead, having committed suicide.

Unfortunately, Willie's newfound happiness is cut short when Zach receives a phone call from his mother, saying that London's East End was bombed while his father was there, and he wants to see Zach one last time in case he dies.

Then Willie dreamt that he and Mr Tom slept in the air raid shelter.

Tom, however, remembers how he felt when he lost his own family, and in an attempt to stop Willie going down the same path he did, gives Willie a heartfelt speech that while a loved one may physically be gone, they will always live on inside someone else's heart.

Willie eventually overcomes his grief and teaches himself how to ride the bicycle Zach left behind.