Bruno, eight years old, is the sheltered son of a Nazi officer whose promotion takes the family from their comfortable home in Berlin to a desolate area where the lonely boy has nothing to do and not to play with.Very bored and moved by curiosity, Bruno ignores the repeated recommendations of the mother not to explore the back garden and heads for the farm he saw from some distance. There he meets Shmuel, a boy his age who lives a parallel existence and different from the other side of the barbed wire fence.Bruno's encounter with the boy in the striped pajamas leads him from innocence to a deeper reflection on the adult world around them as his meetings with Shmuel turn into a friendship with devastating consequences.Shmuel tells Bruno that her father left and never returned, and was concerned that the demand of the mesmo.Bruno then moved to Shmuel and says he will help you the next day he comes to "shovel" in order to pass to the other side in order to help Shmuel.So Bruno is hardly more know that there is a concentration camp, Bruno's mother looks for him all over the house no longer meets and soon realizes that the gate to go to camp (farm) is open and rushes out to see look if Bruno was there,she warns her husband that was running the camp, when they get there are the clothes of Bruno on the floor with the "shovel" and the open hole beneath the fence, Bruno's father rushes desperately behind her son any more valley, Bruno was already cremated.
