Les ombres un conte familial

The directors uncle is born in Poland in January 1944 in the stable where his parents were hiding The baby is left on a window sill while his father is shot for dead by Germans After the war the mother and directors grandmother a new emigrant in France harshly negotiates the return oh her child She marries the directors grandfather who is told to be the natural father of the child 46 years later the grown child builds a cenotaph for his real father an empty grave to commemorate his memory This stone embodies the story of three generations of a polishfrench family