In Nazi-occupied Vichy, France, eighteen-year-old Julien struggles to follow his father's teachings, to trust the power of God over guns, when the woman he cares for, his best friend, and the children they protect are threatened.
Fifteen-year-old Magali lives in "free" France where everyone goes about pretending it's life as usual. Yet, many of Magali's refugee friends displaced from their homes and forced into hiding from the Nazis and Vichy collaborators, are anything but free. Magali can't understand why no one, not even God, does anything. Then Paquerette arrives in town, a courier transporting the very small numbers of children she and her organization have persua...
In 1940, fifteen-year-old Julien Losier moves with his family from Paris to a small rural town in France to live with his grandfather, where he becomes involved in matters of life and death when they shelter a Jewish boy in their home.