Nachman warns his family at Passover that antisemitism will spread across Europe and all Jewish people will be driven out.

Ephraïm and Emma flee Russia at night with baby Myriam, crossing into Latvia after selling all their possessions.

After five bankrupt years in Palestine, Ephraïm moves his family to Paris seeking prosperity and French citizenship.

Ephraïm spots Adolf Hitler's face in a newspaper and immediately shaves off his own mustache.

France denies Ephraïm's citizenship application, and he bans all Jewish, Russian, and German customs from their household.

Myriam marries Vicente Picabia and is removed from the Jewish registry in their rural town.

Police arrive at the family's dacha and take Noémie and Jacques away; Ephraïm hides Myriam in the orchard.

Jeanine and Gabriele Picabia smuggle Myriam across the German demarcation line, hiding her in the false back of a car.

Noémie and Jacques are loaded onto a deportation train, eighty people per car, unable to say goodbye to each other.

Jacques is led to the gas chamber at Auschwitz; Noémie is selected as a worker and dies of typhus weeks later.

Ephraïm and Emma willingly accompany French police and are immediately sent to the gas chambers upon arriving at Auschwitz.

Lélia finishes telling Anne the Rabinovitch family's history, and Anne's water breaks in the car.

Clara tells Lélia that Jewish people are not liked at her school, alarming Anne and reigniting the family's trauma.

Anne and Lélia travel to Les Forges and find a collection of Boris's postcards written in Cyrillic script.

Anne meets Myriam's nurse Juliette, who reveals that Myriam herself wrote the postcard and asked Juliette to mail it before dying.

The first pool traces the Rabinovitch family from their desperate flight out of Russia to their tragic deaths at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. It follows Ephraïm's stubborn pursuit of French citizenship and prosperity, even as antisemitism closes in around his family at every turn. The pool captures the pivotal moments that seal the family's fate, including Myriam's marriage and the night her siblings are seized by police. It then shifts to the contemporary timeline, where Anne's daughter Clara's offhand remark about antisemitism at school reignites decades of inherited grief. Anne and her mother pursue leads across France, ultimately uncovering the postcard's shocking origin. The pool concludes with the revelation that Myriam herself wrote the postcard before she died, determined that her murdered family would not be forgotten.

The Rabinovitch family's journey from Russia to Auschwitz and the mystery of the postcard.

Bolshevik police break into Emma and Ephraïm's home; Emma frightens them away with pregnancy pains before Ephraïm escapes.

Ephraïm's caviar business collapses in Riga, and neighbors warn Emma that antisemites are now targeting her husband.

The family's wagon is attacked by antisemites hurling rocks in Lodz, Poland; young Myriam is struck near the eye.

The orange grove in Palestine goes bankrupt after five years, leaving Ephraïm's family destitute and envious of European relatives.

Nachman visits France, forms a close bond with Jacques while gardening, and announces he will return to Palestine to die free.

Anna, Ephraïm's first love, arrives in Paris as a German refugee and urgently warns him to flee to America at once.

German ordinances take effect in occupied France, defining Jewishness and listing Ephraïm as foreign Jew number one in their prefecture.

Myriam is arrested for violating curfew; a bribed officer releases her and gives her money for a train home.

A camp doctor places Noémie and Jacques on a wrongly-arrested list, sparing them from the first deportation convoy out of Pithiviers.

Noémie refuses to leave Pithiviers transit camp without Jacques and is put back in the deportation line alongside him.

Anne visits the detective agency, where Franck Falque identifies the upside-down stamp as a French resistance signal.

At Passover dinner with Georges, Deborah accuses Anne of being Jewish only when it suits her.

A criminology handwriting expert concludes that old family friend Colette is unlikely to have written the mysterious postcard.

Anne and Lélia find Emma's piano still sitting in Fauchere's living room during their investigation in Les Forges.

Myriam searches the Hotel Lutetia daily for her family among the returning concentration camp survivors but finds no trace of them.

The second pool highlights the many moments of antisemitic persecution the Rabinovitch family faced across Europe, from a Bolshevik raid in Russia to rock-throwing in Poland and discrimination in Paris. It follows the cruel mechanics of deportation, including the brief hope offered by a sympathetic camp doctor and Noémie's heartbreaking refusal to leave without her brother. The pool then shifts to the contemporary investigation, as Anne works with a detective, attends Passover for the first time, and is challenged about her Jewish identity. Anne and Lélia methodically pursue leads, consulting a handwriting expert and retracing their family's footsteps through the French countryside. The pool ends with Myriam's anguished daily search for her murdered family among the shattered survivors returning to Paris after the war.

The family's repeated encounters with antisemitism and Anne's methodical investigation into the postcard.

Nachman and Esther depart for Palestine while their adult children scatter across Europe, ignoring Nachman's urgent warnings.

The Rabinovitch family arrives in Palestine expecting prosperity but finds Nachman and Esther hardened and impoverished by farm labor.

Ephraïm learns from a friend who fled Germany that Jewish people are being violently persecuted under Hitler's rule.

Ephraïm forbids Jacques from celebrating a Bar Mitzvah; Emma is furious and sees her husband as fundamentally divided against himself.

Ephraïm turns down friend Debord's offer to smuggle the family out of France, choosing to wait for his children's return.

Myriam bikes through the night to Paris after her siblings are seized, pausing on the road to bury a dead bird she finds.

Vicente abandons Myriam alone at the rural Hanged Man's House on their anniversary and returns to Paris without her.

Vicente spends his mother's resistance money in an opium den in Paris, forgetting his mission and leaving Myriam waiting in hiding.

Yves Bouveris arrives at the hostel to escape the French wartime draft, and the trio gradually forms a close, intimate bond.

Myriam returns to her family's home in Les Forges and finds it shuttered, with all her unread postcards piled in the mailbox.

Vicente overdoses on the sidewalk outside his mother's apartment; his death is recorded as suicide in the police report.

Lélia is struck by a rock and called a slur as a child in Cereste, echoing the antisemitic attacks her mother once endured.

Anne writes her sister Claire declaring that they are the reincarnations of Myriam and Noémie, a burden almost too heavy to bear.

An envelope from Les Forges contains Noémie's personal journals and a draft novel whose main character is named Anne.

While touring Cereste, Anne stops to buy a pregnancy test and vows that any new child will carry only its own name.

The third pool focuses on the decisive moments and buried truths that shaped the Rabinovitch family's fate and the wounds passed down through generations. It tracks Ephraïm's repeated failures to heed warnings, from dismissing Nachman's departure to refusing an offer that could have saved his family's lives. The pool then follows Myriam through her wartime years in hiding, including Vicente's abandonment and her devastating discovery that her family home is empty. It charts the post-war unraveling of those around Myriam, including Vicente's overdose and young Lélia's own shattering encounter with antisemitism. Finally, it turns to the contemporary sisters, Anne and Claire, as they confront the inherited burden of being survivors' descendants, find Noémie's lost writings, and allow themselves to imagine a future freed from the weight of the past.

The pivotal decisions, hidden revelations, and emotional reckoning that echo across three generations.