| Summary: | "Monique will do anything to stay alive. Monique, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, flees for her life from the Nazis, runs away on the streets of Paris and looking for a place to hide. Philip, the resistance man, offers her a deal in a basement in the suburbs of the city -the underground will help her change her identity, and in return she will have to get closer to the Germans who control the city and provide information about them. Monique is torn between her feelings for Philip and the need to be with Ernst, a German officer who is interested in getting to know her, and walks deeper and deeper into the jaws of the Nazis. She knows it's only a matter of time before she makes a mistake, and they discover her identity, the real one. Paris of the days of the Nazi occupation is described through her eyes, on the cafes crowded with German soldiers and French girls in front of the lines of people stretching outside the empty food stores. But above all, this is the story of a girl who is forced to fight for her identity and her life and refuses to give up in those dark days when their nailed boots of the German soldiers marched through the streets of Paris."--
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