In Hazy Zones

September 1943. The Nazis occupy Nice, and the Jewish population is being hunted. Hidden in a closet, little Elsie Oppenheimer hears men carrying away her parents and their protectors. She will never see them again… Thus begins From a Dead End. Who were the heroes, who were the cowards, and what were their motives' The survivors of the Second World War and their descendants attempt to discover the answers to these questions in each of these hazy zones, set throughout the French Riviera during the Occupation. These three stories have in common the search for a faded truth, and if the tales are hazy, they are in keeping with the fog of memory and distance. Each immerses us in a painful, truly haunting past, where distorted and distorting memory continues to be passed down well after the death of the protagonists. “Nice, August 26, 1943 To the Relevant Authorities: The Basinos are hiding Jews in their house on the extension of the Chemin de la Conque. When will you finally decide to rid us of this vermin'”