About the book: 2020 / Paris, 1940. The Nazi-occupied city seems to have changed forever. But for three girls, sewing workshop workers, life still goes on. Each of them carefully keeps their secrets: Mireille fights on the side of the Resistance, Claire secretly meets with a German officer, and Vivienne is involved in a case the details of which she cannot reveal even to her closest friends. Several generations later, Claire's granddaughter, Harriet, returns to Paris. She desperately wants to reconnect with her family's past. She has yet to learn the truth, which will turn out to be much worse than she imagined. Bit by bit, she will reconstruct the story of courage, friendship, perseverance and loyalty. The story of ordinary people forced to do extraordinary things in harsh wartime.