In 1953, a French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family is Jewish. This is an exploration of a dark family secret and the story of a passion told through the interior journey of François, a solitary child who invents a brother and imagines his parents’ past.
A Secret
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family is Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history, which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his ""Aryan"" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
