In the early 1940s, as the Second World War raged across the globe, Madagascar was caught in the middle of a strategic struggle between the Allied and Axis powers. Situated off the eastern coast of Africa, the Big Island's location in the Indian Ocean made it a vital asset for controlling crucial shipping lanes connecting Europe, Africa, and Asia.The fall of France in June 1940 brought Madagascar under the control of the Vichy French government, a puppet regime collaborating with N...

Paris, 1942. Daphne Moreau has learned how to survive the Occupation: keep her head down, her voice soft, and her husband's secrets to herself. Jacques is a gendarme who brings home food with no questions asked and goes silent whenever the city turns dangerous. She has chosen not to look too closely at why.Then she looks.When Daphne understands the full extent of her husband's collaboration with the Nazi machinery of repression, silence becomes its own kind of betrayal. A c...