故事发生在巴黎被德军占领期间，巴蒂诺尔（杰拉尔·朱诺 Gérard Jugnot 饰）是肉铺的老板，因此生活要比那些手无寸铁的普通居民要好过一些，但也仅仅是一些而已。一天，生活在他们家楼上的一个犹太家庭遭到了德军的逮捕，洞悉这一切的巴蒂尔诺为了保护自己和自己的家庭，而选择忍气吞声坐视不管。

Summer 1990. Elsa and her father go to the South of France on vacation. They meet up with old friends and their four children in a house lost in the hills. Immediately, the complicity between adults and children is rekindled. But Elsa senses a growing tension and secretly worries.