“生活的痛苦远远大于死亡的痛苦，绝望和悲伤横行，徒留噩梦一场连一场；
毫无意义的挣扎，只为心中残存的希望之光；
但愿恐惧能远离那些弱小的生命，
但愿你的眼睛里还能看到世间的美好和天堂。”
那年，那天，女孩安娜.格里斯的5岁的生日，她和父母所居住的村镇 ———— 一个曾经蓊郁的树木，鸟语花香，以及生活着最喜欢一起玩的小伙伴的小镇，被由于久战不胜而变得歇斯底里敌军军队狂轰滥炸摧毁殆尽 ———— 曾经的熟悉的平和小镇，被到处都是燃烧的尸体和支离破碎的房屋取代。而安娜，关于生日会的最后的回忆只有父亲被吞没在炮火之中，和母亲惊恐带自己逃跑的表情……
不知道过了多少天，在尼斯修道院修道院的修女发现她的时候，她一个人躲在一个废弃谷仓中，衣衫褴褛，饥饿恐惧，蹲伏在潮湿发霉的稻草堆旁，而一边是她母亲发臭的尸体——触目惊心的背后是无法言喻的慌张和恐惧。
安娜被修女们带到一个名叫霍格的偏远小镇里面的孤儿院，里面住着的都是一些像安娜一样的流离失所的孤儿——拥挤不堪的孤儿院，食物药物的匮乏，无时无刻的战争的威胁，失去至亲挚爱的痛苦，都给孤儿院的孤儿和修女蒙上了绝望的阴影——
战乱太久，城镇剩下了的，也就只有废墟，留下和离开似乎都没有了意义，而且也无处可逃，午夜已到，噩梦将至……
The pain of life is much heavier than the pain of death. Sorrow and desperation scatters out everywhere, which results in nightmare again and again.
Though the effort will be in vain, the light of hope in people’s hearts will still be sparkling.
Hope that the fear can be far away from the weak.
Wish that you’re able to appreciate the beauty and goodness of this world through your eyes.
That day was the birthday of a five-year-old girl named Anna Gries. The small town she and her parents lived was the one that possessed beautiful scenery and her best friends ever before. However, all of these were destroyed completely by the hysterical enemy who was defeated for several times. The small, familiar and peaceful town now was replaced with burning corpses and broken buildings. And Anna whose last memory about the birthday party was only filled with flames on her farther as well as terrified emotions of her mother while escaping.
Nobody knew how many days had passed away. When Anna in rags was found by a nun of Niece Convent, she had herself hidden in an abandoned granary on her own with hunger and fear. By her side was her mother’s rotten corpse. Each one could imagine how horrible and miserable situation they had come across.
Then Anna was taken into an orphan asylum where located at a rural town called Hawk. Most of homeless children like Anna stayed in here. The narrow space, a lack of food and medicines, the threat of the war and the grief of losing families and friends--each one of them could give them nothing but the despair.
Suffering from the war for so long, the small town had been in ruins totally. It’s no use to stay or leave here and even if nowhere to run away. The midnight has come as well as the nightmare is approaching!