RAYS AND SHADOWS

Late-1930s Europe: fervent pacifist Luchaire finds an ally in young German Francophile Otto Abetz. Together, they champion peace and rapprochement between their nations in the uneasy calm after the Great War. Meanwhile, Jean's glamorous daughter Corinne is making waves as a rising movie star, hailed as the "French Greta Garbo".

By 1940, however, the Nazi invasion of Paris forces stark choices. Jean aligns with German authorities and, through his newspaper Les Nouveaux Temps, becomes a powerful press baron - embracing collaboration as a path to influence and survival. His trajectory intertwines with that of Otto's, now the Reich ambassador, whose support helps cement his position inside the occupiers' elite. Through her connection to the two, Corinne is drawn into an intoxicating yet perilous world of embassy parties, salons, and propaganda cinema that both protects and endangers her.