The French girl, Matilda (Audrey Toto) is disabled due to polio, and the boy from the same village, Maniec (Gaspard Ulliel), is her childhood sweetheart, and the two have settled down. However, with the outbreak of World War I, Manek was drafted into the army, and the engagement became distant.
The war was long and cruel, but Matilda thought there was a strange connection between herself and Manek, and she believed that Manek was still alive.
In 1920, Matilda received bad news: five French soldiers were sentenced to death by their country's military council for self-mutilation and thrown into the enemy's "twilight bingo" trenches to die, the youngest of whom was Manac.
Matilda began a difficult search for the truth. She found a private investigator to investigate, asked someone to check the relevant documents of the military and persevered to visit the survivors of the "Twilight Bingo" trenches, at the cost of exhausting the inheritance left by her parents.
The process of searching was painful and long. Matilda seemed to have experienced the horror of war first-hand, and also knew more unknown secrets of the "Twilight Bingo" trenches...View more about A Very Long Engagement reviews
