Inspired by a true story! Helene, LiIi and Rose met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch LiIi, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. However, after the liberation of the camp, they Iost touch. LiIi went back to the Netherlands. Rose married a former deportee and settled down in Canada. HeIene returned home to France, where she met an old childhood sweetheart, and married him, aware of his impotency caused by sinister doctors carrying out experiments on him in the concentration camp. Determined to find her oId companions, HeIene puts an ad in a deportees newspaper. Against alI odds, the ad is answered and the women are reunited. The reunion takes pIace in Berck Plage in the north of France. The women rediscover each other, as well as help each other to overcome their Auschwitz demons. VERY SPECIAL DVD EXTRA: One hour Documentary, Irene et ses Soeurs, by Director Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, whose reaI life mother inspired the film. French with English SubtitIes. |