BBC film based on true events. August 1945: A coachload of children arrives at the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere. They are survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. Carrying only the clothes they wear and a few meagre possessions, they bear the emotional and physical scars of all they have suffered. Charged with looking after them is Oscar Friedmann, a German-born child psychologist. He and his team of counsellors have just four months to help the children reclaim their lives. By the lake, in sunshine and rain, the children eat, learn English, play football, ride bikes, and are invited to express their trauma through painting. It is in this environment that they begin to heal. 'The Windermere Children' is the stark, moving and ultimately redemptive story of the bonds they make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future. In the absence of relatives, they find family in each other.