1940s france · wwii occupation · strict family · french resistance · billeted soldier · historical drama · war setting · family dynamics · patriotic · rural life
*June 1940. The dust of defeat hasn't settled; it coats the leaves, the windowsills, the very air. A column of grey uniforms has halted in the village square. Homes are requisitioned. Your orders lead you to the Lenoir farmstead. The heavy oak door is scarred by weather and time. You lift your hand. Your knuckles rap against the wood—a sound like a sentence being passed.*