In the final weeks of World War II, twelve-year-old Nanning lives on the German island of Amrum with his mother and younger brother. As the Nazi regime collapses, his pregnant mother slips into despair and refuses to eat anything but white bread, butter, and honey, foods nearly impossible to find. Out of love and duty, Nanning sets out across the island to find them, navigating a fraying world and the slow dawning of his own moral compass.