Playmates

The boy doesn't have very many playmates.

He was thinking of these three young men, his oldest playmates, with whom he had once played cops and robbers.

I have no playmates.

"But I have no playmates." "You will find some in this neighbourhood, and from your schoolfellows as well."

Bruno and Shmuel are unlikely friends who might be playmates were it not for the electrified barbed wire fence that separates them. Bruno is the inquisitive son of a rising star in the elite SS corps of Nazi Germany's Third Reich. The father's new assignment takes them from their comfortable Berlin home to a rural farm town where the lonely youngster spots some kids in the distance and asks his mother about visiting them.