Directed by director Lisa Olin, Oak Boy is a fantasist, reading-loving Simon who is at odds with his carpenter-turned-father; instead, is a classmate of Isaac, who avoids the Nazis and borrows his family, is more interested in his father's craft, and even has similar interests.
It's a story of ideals and reality, and it's even more a story about love. A peaceful film. Two story lines. 1: A child who likes music grows up in a carpenter's house, a child who likes carpentry work grows up in a jewish rich family, and the lives of the two families are connected through children. 2: The parents of the child who like music are not biological parents, and his musical genes come from his father (a music teacher who does not appear in the film). Coupled with the background of World War II, it is such a peaceful story, and the plot is not very tense.
The film, which has many names, is based on the novel of the same name by Swedish writer Marianne Fejsen. The original book was called The Boy Who Spoke to the Oak Tree. The adapted film names are "Oak Boy", "Simon and the Oak Tree", "Oak Boy", "Amon and the Oak Tree" and so on.