“Ironside rests this story on the complicated quilt of all the parties at play in the war in France — the Communists, the Vichy government, the different Resistance groups, General de Gaulle and his forces.
It gets confusing because war is messy, sewn with loyalty and patriotism, scorched by betrayal. What remains when the story ends is the feeling that rural France in those days was a dangerous yet beautiful place.”







