One woman saved them. Her family called her a traitor. Now, the truth will finally come to light. Paris, 1938. Claire Weinberg came to study art at the École des Beaux-Arts. She found Valérie, cynical, fearless, fiercely loyal, and together they discovered a city of beauty and possibility. Then the Germans came, and the two friends were torn apart. Beaujolais, 1943. Claire has turned her family's crumbling manor into a secret refuge for Jewish children whose parents have been taken. She draws with them, plays piano in the dark, and builds a fragile world of beauty inside walls surrounded by horror. When a cultured SS commander takes a dangerous interest in the painter above the valley, Claire must use the only weapon she has, her art. But a teenage boy is watching from the shadows, and what he sees will haunt him for fifty years. France, 1998. Art restorer Madeleine arrives at the manor to settle an inheritance she was taught never to visit. An elderly stranger is already there, a man who once lived within these walls, carrying a story that will shatter everything she thought she knew about her family. Read more

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