In 1945, twelve million homeless children roam the rubble of a Europe barely emerging from the deadliest conflict it has ever known. An unprecedented number of children find themselves separated from their parents or orphaned. These kids lost, abandoned, left to fend for themselves will become spoils of war in the hands of States seeking to rebuild themselves. Under cover of the best interests of these children, the Allies will embark on a real race for children. Out of demographic opportunism or out of fear of seeing them indoctrinated by a new totalitarianism, they will sort out, have more than 500,000 of them adopted and erased their identity.