Back in 1953a boy that is sensitive finds that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, also gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which led in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic with his"Aryan" appearing parents. His father worked tirelessly to stamp characteristics that were Jewish out he sensed to hold the family secrets, because relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled away to labour and death camps by the Gestapo.