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In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decides to meet them for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.

Occupied Montauban in 1944 provides a suffocating backdrop where a surgeon’s attempt to shield his family from the German advance collapses into quiet desperation. This period drama trades sweeping battles for the tense, intimate dread of a household waiting for a reunion that may never come.