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París, 1 August, 1914. In Madame Durieux's pension, young people from all nations come together, in a cosmopolitan mix of races and tongues, all eager to enjoy the febrile vitality of the City of Light. But on that day, everything changes. France starts mobilising its men for the war against Germany.
The massacre of a family of farm labourers in Carreu in 1943 shakes the local community and surrounding villages of this corner of Pallars Jussà, Catalonia. But news of the mass murder did not get much further. In an age when it was necessary to offer an image of Spain as a peaceful paradise, censorship silences the press.