After a terrible day at school, during which he couldn’t talk back to a classmate who was making fun of him in front of everyone, Terry travels back in time thanks to the old yellow telephone in his father’s study. This time he travels back to 1945, at the end of World War II. He meets Bella, a partisan courier who saves him from the Nazis and invites him to accompany her on her mission: to warn her brother, Biondo’s, gang that the blacks have captured Yanez, one of their own.
Terry learns about the dynamics of partisan warfare and the difficult life in the woods, in isolated and hidden farmhouses with rationed food and the hope of a better and more equitable future for all. He also learns of a family tragedy: Bella and Biondo’s brother, in fact, is a member of the Nazi-Fascists.
With the help of his dog Parky, Terry will be able to help the partisans and defeat the evil Lord Temporos, his sworn enemy from the future who aims to capture the essence of the partisans’ courage to become immortal. From this adventure, Terry will earn not only a red handkerchief, symbol of the Resistance, but also the strength to find redemption at school.
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