(1920-1940) They are 20 years old. They are traumatised by the butchery of the 1914 war. They dream of peace and revolution. The revolution is Russian. The party representing it is the French Communist Party, the French Section of the Communist International (SFIC). They join, campaign, put their soul into...

(1945-1955) Four men. Four comrades, Four activists seasoned by war, secrecy and the Resistance. All from the Nord-Pas de Calais region. After the Liberation, they become cadres, members of the apparatus of France’s leading party, the party of Maurice Thorez.