Steve McQueen’s The Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London, whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return to his mother and grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in east London, sets off on an adventure but finds himself in great danger while a desperate Rita searches for her missing son.