In the late summer of 1939, as France once more drifted into war, a mother, anxious to spare her youngest son, starts him on a journey that does everything but. Sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Normandie, young John-Paul Tesseraud avoids both conscription and the French authorities by assuming the identity of his cousin, Pauline Valery. The same attributes that caused his mother to fear for his safety, even at the hands of his fellow soldiers,...