France, 1940. Lucile Angellier`s husband has been captured as a prisoner-of-war, & all she can do is wait for him
- & tend to the household controlled by her domineering mother-in-law. Their small village is soon occupied by a regiment of German soldiers, forcing the locals to coexist with an invading Nazi force. Lieutenant Bruno von Falk takes up lodgings with the Angellier women, & Lucile struggles with her growing feelings for the handsome officer
- soon a powerful love draws them together, & they too fall victim to the tragedy of war. Irene Nemirovsky began writing Suite Francaise in 1940, but her death in Auschwitz prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the novel would be discovered by her daughter & hailed worldwide as a masterpiece.