1 - A Family at War - Volume 01 | PIATZSZEK ESPE

Identity can be a source of pride... or a crime. Mulhouse, nowadays. A young dynamic executive, hooked on substances to keep up with the pace, decides to spend a week in a rest clinic. One evening, he meets his roommate, Mr. Engel, son of an important winemaker from the Colmar region. After letting him taste a delicious Riesling, Mr. Engel tells him the story of his family in Alsace in 1940... The region was then part of the Third Reich after the Nazis' lightning victory and having been alternately German and French. Amidst the arrests, the prohibitions, the assimilation into Nazi customs, and the beginning of the Gestapo's hunt for Jews, identity tensions resurfaced in a region constantly torn between two cultures. The Engel family's story was that of a tragic family in a region that was not quite like any other. A family at war. Against history, against itself. Following "The Island of the Righteous," Stéphane Piatzszek and Espé once again tell us about the ordinary heroism of French men and women caught in the turmoil of war during the Occupation. A family saga with a sweeping and uplifting narrative.