The story is based on the real "winter stadium incident" during World War II. This tragedy of the Vichy government's help is a past that the French chose to silence and forget. On July 16 and 17, 1942, the Paris police were ordered by the Nazis and arrested tens of thousands of Jews, including thousands of children. They were first concentrated in the winter bicycle racing stadium, and then sent to Auschwitz in batches. , Died in the gas chamber. The protagonist of the novel Sarahis one of the children arrested. She does not know what happened. When the police ordered her parents to pack up and follow them, to protect her four-year-old brother, She locked him in the secret cabinet where they usually play hide and seek at home. There is a little water and food in the secret cabinet, as well as a flashlight. She thought she could go home and let her brother out soon. As everyone knows, what she and her family are about to embark on is a journey of death without a return journey. Seeing that she was forced to squeeze into buses and trains, getting further and further away from Paris, Sarah was holding the key tightly in her hand, and her heart grew more and more anxious. She is determined to go back and abide by the agreement between her and her brother. In the end Sarah fled and returned home and opened the secret cabinet and cried bitterly when she saw her brother who had been starved to death. From then on Sarah lived with this shadow, but in the end she chose to commit suicide because of self-blame.
Sixty years later, Julia, an American female journalist who married in France , was ordered to write an article about the "Winter Stadium Incident", but unexpectedly, she unearthed a story that her husband’s family had concealed dozens of. The secret of the year. A few months after Sarah’s family was arrested, Julia’s husband’s grandparents moved into the apartment where Sarah’s family had rented. Sarah is not on the list of victims in the "Winter Stadium Incident", Julia vows to find out the truth about Sarah's whereabouts. But if the truth is revealed, it may cause more suffering. How should human beings face the scars left by themselves
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