An unpolitical shopkeeper named Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a modest apartment above his grocery in occupied Paris. The Jewish Bernstein family moves into the confiscated flat when his future son-in-law and German collaborator Pierre-Jean Lamour phones the Nazis to arrest them. Days later, Simon Bernstein escapes the Germans and returns to his old house. Batignole finds him and takes him in, hiding him from Pierre-Jean and his wife. Later, two of Simon's relatives meet him in the grocery's cellar. Batignole chooses to travel to Switzerland with the kids when Pierre-Jean discovers them.
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An unpolitical shopkeeper named Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a modest apartment above his grocery in occupied Paris. The Jewish Bernstein family moves into the confiscated flat when his future son-in-law and German collaborator Pierre-Jean Lamour phones the Nazis to arrest them. Days later, Simon Bernstein escapes the Germans and returns to his old house. Batignole finds him and takes him in, hiding him from Pierre-Jean and his wife. Later, two of Simon's relatives meet him in the grocery's cellar. Batignole chooses to travel to Switzerland with the kids when Pierre-Jean discovers them.
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