Running Scared (2006)You can read the summary at Wikipedia, which includes all the details you describe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Scared_(20... Bright of "Godsend", "Birth" and "The Butterfly Effect" plays the boy who is on the run with a stolen gun and ends up with the pedophiles.
Sorry I thought it was the changeling, but I read the rest of your description and its not.
At first I thought it was ransom but its not. I wish I could tell you.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.