Helm

De 1939 à 1945, au camp de Ravensbrück, 132 000 femmes et enfants furent les victimes silencieuses des nazis. Résistantes, Tziganes, Témoins de Jéhova, handicapées, prostituées ou juives, elles étaient pour le Reich des déclassées, des « bouches inutiles ». Parmi elles, 8 000 Françaises dont Germaine Tillion et Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz.

Not long after her parents' separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother and their now divorcée mother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Their mother is all alone, only thirty-one years of age, with three young children and a Labrador. It is no wonder, when you put it like that, that she becomes a menace and a drunk. And a playwright.