La condition des juifs durant l'après-guerre

Paris 1947. Victor et Felix ont quinze ans. Victor arrive de la campagne ou il a ete eleve apres l'arrestation de ses parents. Il rencontre Felix, jeune homme a l'aise, dans le metro, ou il est perdu. Felix l'aide a retrouver l'immeuble ou il a vecu mais il n'y retrouve personne. Il trouve un travail de commis chez Max, brocanteur de banlieue au grand coeur. Pour Victor et son copain Felix, c'est l'apprentissage de la vie dans l'epoque plus que morose de l'apres-guerre.

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?