Family separation, ill-timed passion and world chaos irrevocably change the lives of the women of L’Auberge des Anges farm. Under the oppression of the 1943 German occupation, rebellious farm-girl, CELESTE ROUSSEL dreams of independence, escaping her harsh, abortionist mother, MARINETTE, and her provincial village of Lucie-sur-Vionne. When German officer, MARTIN DIEHL admires her, Céleste is suspicious of his motivations. Has she really caught his eye, or is he simply trying to garner vital information about her brother, PATRICK and friend, OLIVIER PRIMROSE’s resistance group? Céleste’s nun sister, FELICITE, advises her not to shun the German’s advances, to learn what he knows about the Lucie-sur-Vionne resistors, and Céleste embarks on a dangerous charade. In a hut in the woods, Céleste discovers the WOLF family –– MAX, SABINE, TALIA and JACOB –– who escaped a German roundup. Against Marinette’s wishes, Céleste conceals the Jewish family in L’Auberge des Anges attic. Informed of black market activities, Germans soldiers –– KARL GOTTLOB and FRITZ FRANKENHEIMER –– begin blackmailing the villagers for their own gains. A traitor denounces Patrick and Olivier, who are arrested by the Gestapo, and Félicité takes the Wolf family into the safety of her convent. Marinette’s abortionist equipment is discovered and she too is arrested, yet inexplicably released. Céleste can’t comprehend why Marinette continues her business, despite the risk of the guillotine, and mother and daughter continue their own, smaller-scale battle. Against her will, and despite her resistance mission with Martin Diehl, Céleste falls in love with the German officer. Meanwhile, eager to help rid France of the occupier, she begins working for the resistance group, proving herself worthy when she breaks out Patrick and Olivier from their prison hospital hours before their appointment with the firing squad. Céleste and Martin continue their weekly rendez-vous but she feels the strain of her double life: resistance fighter, and lover of a German officer. Her guilt only deepens when Félicité and the Wolf family are deported. When Martin finally discovers Céleste is working for the resistance, she is forced to choose which battle to pursue: her passion for an enemy officer, or her fight to rid the occupier and hasten the release of her loved ones. Despite the heartache, Céleste opts for the Resistance. Karl Gottlob and Fritz Frankenheimer rape Céleste, and she learns her mother suffered the same fate in the Great War. She understands that her mother’s release from prison, and the Germans turning a blind eye to her abortionist business, comes with a price, and Céleste is shocked to discover that Marinette is the informer, supplying Karl and Fritz with information on the villagers’ black-market activities. Céleste vows not to become embittered like her mother, so seeks to avenge her rape in a grenade explosion of the German barracks. But the rapist soldiers are not killed and Céleste lives in fear of German reprisal for her reckless act. Bearing their ominous Wolfsangel insignia, Das Reich’s SS march into Lucie-sur-Vionne one summer day and systematically burn the village, murdering almost every inhabitant. Her guilt weighing heavy, Céleste escapes the inferno, but Karl and Fritz see her fleeing and, after a cat-and-mouse chase through the woods, she shoots them, finally avenging the rape. Ravensbrück survivors, Sabine and Talia Wolf, return to L’Auberge and break the news to Céleste: when Félicité went to the gas chamber in Sabine’s place, she became the real Wolfs’ angel. Despite alternative explanations for the Lucie-sur-Vionne massacre, Céleste’s guilt for the crime will shadow the rest of her days.