Mathilde Goffart

白血病を患い小児病棟に入院する10歳の少年、オスカー。周りの大人たちが余命を悟られないようにと怖々接する中、偶然出会ったデリバリーピザの女主人ローズが見せた遠慮ない態度は、かえってオスカーの心を掴んだ。そんなある日、オスカーはついに自分が余命わずかであることを知ってしまう。誰とも口を利いてくれないオスカーに困り果てた病院長は、彼が唯一心を開いていたローズに話し相手になってほしいと懇願する。戸惑いつつも依頼を引き受けたローズは、短い余命に落ち込むオスカーを励まそうと、ある提案をする。それは、１日を10年と考えて日々を過ごし、その10年間の人生を毎日神様宛の手紙にしたためるというものだった。

In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents...