A sculptor living in German-occupied France forges an unlikely friendship with a young refugee who is fleeing Franco's army in this tender drama from writer/director
Fernando Trueba (
The Miracle of Candeal,
Chico & Rita). The year is 1943. Eighty-year-old artist Marc Cros (
Jean Rochefort) has survived two wars, and bore witness to far more horrors than he wishes to recall. Marc has long given up sculpting, but when his wife (
Claudia Cardinale) happens across a desperate fugitive named Merce (
Aida Folch), the pair agree to shelter her in his studio. Meanwhile, long after Marc thought possible, inspiration strikes. Now as Merce poses for Marc's final sculpture, a powerful bond forms between them.
