This movie is beautiful at first, but as the story goes, it gets scarier and scarier.Set in WW2 in Paris, Jean Lavandier, the first son of a laundry owner, hides his childhood friend, Sarah, a Jewish, in his lover's apartment. Jean's only brother, Jacques has spent a year in jail for trafficking. Jean's parents put their hopes on Jean and one day Jean will inherit the business. Jean's lover, Philippe, made a false ID card for Sarah, changed her name to Yvonne, and Jean makes his father hires her. After Jacques's release from jail, Jacques falls in love with Yvonne, but Yvonne loves only Jean. Meanwhile Jacques sells the addresses of their fled Jewish clients to the police, so the treasure left can be looted.
On Jean's birthday in 1942, four of them (Jean, Jacques, Yvonne, Philippe) celebrate it together and Jacques brings some bottles of champagne. They become drunk. In this occasion, Yvonne turns Jacques down again, so Jacques's jealousy of his brother is getting bigger. Jacques calls his contact at the police and asks him to pick up Jean and put him in jail for one night only, to give him a lesson. Jean is caught, but they won't release him because they finds out he has been seen with a German officer, a traitor. Only the German officer himself can free Jean, but unfortunately he has committed a suicide. Jean is sent to a rehabilitation camp, for in that time homosexuality is against the law. Jacques sells more Jewish people's addresses to save Jean, without any result. Jacques finally marries Yvonne and gives her a big apartment. We can see a contrast: their comfortable life versus Jean's sufferings in the camp.
It was horrible to see what happened to Jean. It was the time when human life was not worth anything.
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