Alice Isaaz

Tras el estallido de una guerra civil, una familia de colonos franceses intenta abandonar su hogar en Missouri y regresar a París.

In a library located in the heart of Brittany , a piece gathers rejected manuscripts submitted by unknown authors. A young publisher discovers an extraordinary manuscript that she immediately decides to publish. The novel becomes a bestseller.But its author, Henri Pick, a Breton pizza-maker who died two years earlier, would never have written anything other than his shopping lists, according to his widow. Convinced that it is an imposture, the famous literary critic Jean-Michel Rouche decides to lead the investigation, with the unexpected help of the daughter of the enigmatic Henri Pick.

1940, German forces roll into France. The inhabitants of a small Northern village are forced to flee, along with millions throughout the country. They take along a German child whose father opposed the Nazi regime and has been jailed for lying about his nationality. The father escapes into the fog of war in search of his son, accompanied by a Scottish soldier, who is trying to get back to England.