It is centred on an autistic boy named Lorenzo, who is growing up on a farm in that region when the Germans invade the country and occupy France.

She goes into detail how there were flamingos who fled the region, and Lorenzo, an autistic teenager, who gave her comfort and refuge when the Nazis invaded the town.

[3] He visited a national park in the area where there were pink flamingos, and it "gave me the story of an autistic boy growing up in a farmhouse amongst these creatures".

[3] Jennifer Hillman from the School Librarian wrote that "throughout the book, the vivid and dramatic events surrounding these characters and the prejudices their families face, is delicately and sensitively handled".

[7] In her review for The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Natalie Berglind said "this quiet, introspective story is pulled along by the magnetic voices of Vincent and Kezia, who easily draw readers into the past".

She sums up her review by stating, "Lorenzo is sensitively portrayed, and he has great depth of character in spite of his limited speech, and overall, readers will learn much about history, culture, friendship, and morality with an unambiguously happy ending that is worth a read".