Marie Dominici
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of his sons, the patriarch Gaston Dominici was judged and condemned without any real evidence.
Grandmother
Мне было три года, когда нас бросил отец. Нам не на что было жить и мать покончила с собой. Я не смогла жить с дедом и бабкой и попала в приют. Здесь я нашла настоящих друзей Соланж и Ахмеда. И вот теперь, когда я стала взрослой, я расстаюсь с друзьями и отправляюсь на поиски папаши, будь он проклят. Я клянусь тебе, мама, что найду этого сукина сына и буду убивать его медленно и верно…
Marianne
Father Birotteau and Father Troubert, both of whom are priests at Tours, have separate lodgings in the house belonging to the crabby spinster Sophie Gamard in that city. Birotteau is an other-worldly, gentle, introspective type; Troubert, who is ten years younger than his fellow boarder, is very much of the world: he is a careerist devoured by ambition.
The mother
Set in Paris 1941, two Jewish boys cling to their lives by doing all sorts of odd jobs, stealing and black-marketeering.
