Auggie, a 10-year-old boy with severe facial anomalies, begins fifth grade at a new school and must face the curious eyes of his peers and try to convince them to look behind his appearance to see all that they have in common.
When a young Jewish girl, hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II by a boy she and her classmates once shunned, becomes her savior and best friend, kindness can live on forever.