Monsieur Batignole

Edmond Batignole (Gérard Jugnot), a grocer in occupied Paris in 1942, wants only to keep his shop open and stay out of politics. Then the Bernstein family is arrested after a tip from his daughter's fiancé, Pierre-Jean Lamour (Jean-Paul Rouve), and the Batignoles move into their confiscated apartment. The film is about how a man who looks away from everything is slowly made to look at a single frightened boy, Simon (Jules Sitruk).