Reeling from a devastating loss she believes she has caused, nineteen-year-old Nadine Hall has lived an illusion rather than face an unbearable reality. When she’s given the chance to make a fresh start, she lands a job as a carer for an archaeologist in Mougins, near Cannes, the perfect location for the movie buff that she is. She settles happily with her charge, Lilly Somerville, Lilly’s sister Viv who suffers from dementia, and Agnes, the housekeeper. But Nadine’s blissful existence is shattered with the arrival of Lilly’s only daughter, Katrina, who wants Nadine gone. The fear of being sent back home threatens to drive the troubled Nadine to the brink, until she happens upon Lilly’s account of her life in German-occupied Paris, which she believes is the key to outsmarting Katrina. Her scheme backfires, with grave consequences.