Picked by Dick - August 18th Meeting
FRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac
says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She
doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do,
in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in
planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a
German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must
live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope,
as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one
impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
Vianne's
sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for
purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of
Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a
partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France,
and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. But when he
betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking
her life time and again to save others.
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