The moving story of Charles Hunter-Arnold and his French Grandmother Pascale Meyette. Following his Grandmothers death Charles inherits her cottage and discovers a wooden box containing memorabilia and a hand written account in which Pascale tells the truth behind the lie she has lived since 1944. Her story speaks of her troubled childhood in Normandy and the occupation by the Germans. Her experiences lead her to move to England and never to return to France. Charles sets out to find his French family and he discovers what happened in the final few months of the war.