4 Estelle alongside his brother Guy dressed in being

Six photos, three letters: January 1, 2009, nine years after the death of his father, the Narrator, reporter, thirty-eight years, receiving hands of his mother a curious package. A support for him to piece together the puzzle than its parent, Guy Rolin, a dentist by profession, sent to him from afterlife. The photos speak of war, Lyon, resistance and collaboration, bombing and children. But what is the relationship can be operate between his father teenager alongside an old man who relies on a shotgun and the same little Guy dressed in communiant with his sister, May 26, 1944, day of the bombing of Lyon by the Americans Between the only known photo of Jean Moulin in the presence of a German, Rillieux-la-Pape shot Jews and a certain Werner Stoglitz Why, this view of the Court of the lycée Saint-Marc in Lyon which ce comment: "This is all started and everything has finished."

Photo No. 4: Estelle alongside his brother Guy, dressed in being. The family story says that the girl was abducted by the Germans in the company of a Jewish family and it disappeared in the camps. And if this story was not one, or several other, nested like Russian dolls Russians, for example, as the friends and sponsors of this Werner Stoglitz, which appears on photo No. 3 and after gestapiste in Lyon has provided the "beautiful hours" of the Stasi.

The question arises: the father he worked for American and Soviet secret services Why would it take her children on holiday in the countries of Eastern Why he hated his country up to support the Paraguay, Italy, Croatia, the Brazil successively at the 1998 World Cup And why so now the Jews that he sometimes wore a yarmulke in the secret of his apartment

Why, asks the Narrator, hated so the weapons that he had bitten a crisis at the sight of a pistol Tokarev, a simple toy that he destroyed yet with a stunning rage Can you see a link with the gun that appears on the photo No. 1 Why was interested in the trap of Caluire where Jean Moulin was caught by the Germans, making and remaking the journey that had brought the man to the red scarf to the trap of the House of Dr. Dugoujon As warned by his father in one of its post-mortem letters: "It will take dig you the meninges."

The puzzle left by father haunts the journalist that he neglects his features, his friends, his companion. In his investigation, he locked in the past Lyon who has decidedly not go down well. The strange paternal puzzle resurrected buried images, painful feelings, the final sentences - those that pronounced when adolescent - and decisions which are not less, as the break with her sister Estelle.

In the wake of François-Guillaume Lorrain, who excels in the art of the romanesque building, found a fascinating Lyon, whose the traboules and the postcard is also reveal winding as the stories of family and as impenetrable as the secrets of resistance.