“There’s the temptation to think of ‘Moreau’s film’ rather than of ‘Marie’s story.’ Moreau never makes that mistake. This is a movie where attention is given to the lives of the characters, not the flourishes of the director.”
—Roger Ebert

Summer, 1939. Marie, age 13, experiences the pangs of first love with a handsome, Jewish doctor (Francis Huster) as the charms of the French countryside are threatened by a looming war, both within her heart and mind, and soon, across Europe in this delicate portrait of one girl’s becoming.