One Life
ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas
‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World
War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited
Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis
in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no
shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it
was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before
the borders closed?
Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by
the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always
blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show,
‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children –
now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief
he had carried for five decades.