In the thick of wartime, four children, Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley), arrive, suitably parentless, at a country house.
Stuck between two conflicting legal systems, the baby, in effect, became stateless and parentless and there were major difficulties trying to get the baby through immigration into Britain.
The man we see is sad and vulnerable and ferocious all at once frightened as a virtually parentless boy in Brooklyn who was robbed by neighborhood kids, then remorseless as a baby gangster robbing drug dealers.