On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
Kristin Scott Thomas
as Julia Jarmond
Mélusine Mayance
as Sarah Starzynski, child
Niels Arestrup
as Jules Dufaure
Frédéric Pierrot
as Bertrand Tezac
Michel Duchaussoy
as Edouard Tezac
Dominique Frot
as Genneviève Dufaure
Natasha Mashkevich
as Rywka Starzynski
Gisèle Casadesus
as Mamé Tezac
Aidan Quinn
as William Rainsferd
Sarah Ber
as Rachel
Arben Bajraktaraj
as Wladyslaw Starzynski
James Gerard
as Mike Bambers
