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Paris Echo
American historian Hannah returns to Paris to research the testimony of women who lived through the German occupation, while Tariq, a Moroccan teenager newly arrived in the city, becomes her lodger. Their different ways of looking at Paris expose layers of history that are easy to overlook in streets, Métro stations and ordinary conversation.
Hannah’s archival work brings Vichy France and wartime collaboration into the present, while Tariq encounters the unresolved legacy of French colonial rule in North Africa. Their parallel journeys make the city itself a record of occupation, empire and migration, and ask how historical knowledge changes the way people understand their own lives.
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