Paris July 1942 Sarah a ten yearold girl is brutally arrested with herfamily by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup but not before shelocks her younger br... » 

Paris July 1942 Sarah a ten yearold girl is brutally arrested with herfamily by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup but not before shelocks her younger brother in a cupboard in the familys apartment thinkingthat she will be back within a few hours. Paris May 2002 On Vel dHivs 60thanniversary journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about thisblack day in Frances past. Through her contemporary investigation shestumbles onto a trail of longhidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah.Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girls ordeal from that terribleterm in the Vel dHiv to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarahspast she begins to question her own place in France and to reevaluate hermarriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtlecompelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos andsilence that surround this painful episode. «