Their names are Matthieu, Joachim, Marie-Hélène, Christophe, Jeanne, and Séverine. They are Jewish or Christian, middle-class, sons of workers... Nothing unites them, neither origin nor age - except the war. Children of resistance fighters, they are fleeing the SS charged with their capture. Beyond the Pyrenees, they will surely find refuge... Only their smugglers have been shot. The only passage connecting them to the valley is destroyed. They will have to face the mountains and the winter alone. And despite the cold, the hunger, the differences, win their freedom...

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