A Secret

“A 15-year-old boy unearths a shocking family secret.”

François Grimbert, a frail, sensitive boy in 1950s France, wants to know why his athletic father, Maxime (Patrick Bruel), keeps pushing him to be someone else. A neighbor tells him the answer: the family is Jewish, though they have raised him Catholic. Claude Miller follows François into adulthood, as he pieces together a family history most of his relatives did not survive, and every question he asks threatens what his parents built to protect him.