Against all expectations Marcel Fรฉron has made a โnormalโ life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the โFateโ that he has secretly awaited. Separated from his pregnant wife and young daughter in the chaos of flight, he joins a freight car of refugees hurtling southward ahead of the pursuing invaders. There, he meets Anna, a sad-looking, dark-haired girl, whose accent is โneither Belgian nor German,โ and who โseemed foreign to everything around her.โ As the mystery of Annaโs identity is gradually revealed, Marcel leaps from the heights of an exhilarating freedom to the depths of a terrifying responsibilityโ one that will lead him to a blood-chilling choice.
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