SS officer Ralf (David Thewlis) and his wife Elsa (Vera Farmiga) possess a twelve-year-old daughter, Gretel (Amber Beattie), and an eight-year-old son, Bruno (Asa Butterfield). The well-to-do loved ones should proceed for the "countryside" when the dad is promoted (to Obersturmbannführer).<br> Unknown to Bruno, the new home is close to a Nazi concentration get away, and Ralf could be the new commandant. Bruno initially dislikes the new residence as he always has to stay from the property or the garden; also you will find no other children to play with, apart from his sister. From his bedroom window, Bruno spots a barbed wire fence with folks in "striped pyjamas" behind it. Though he thinks it really is a farm, it could be the get away with Jewish individuals in their get away clothes. Bruno is forbidden to go there, simply because according to Ralf, "they're not genuinely people"; it truly is agreed that no less than they are a bit weird, as demonstrated by their clothing.
