The French film "Sarah's Key" is based on the real "Winter Arena Incident" during World War II. In July 1942, the Paris police were ordered by the Nazis to arrest tens of thousands of Jews, including thousands of children, They were first concentrated in the winter cycling competition stadium, and then sent to concentration camps in batches, where they died in gas chambers. Sarah, the protagonist of the story, is one of the children who was brutally arrested. Young Sarah, unaware of what was going on, locked her four-year-old brother at home in the secret cabinet they used to play hide-and-seek to protect her four-year-old brother when the police ordered her parents to pack up and go with them. There is some water and food in the locker, and a flashlight. She thought she would be able to go home and release her brother soon. As everyone knows, what she and her family are about to embark on is a journey of death without a return trip. Seeing herself crammed into buses and trains, further and further from Paris, Sarah gripped the keys with increasing anxiety. She was determined to go back and abide by the agreement between her and her brother.
Sixty years later, Julia, an American female journalist who married to France, was commissioned to write an article about the "Winter Stadium Incident", but unexpectedly, she uncovered a secret that her husband's family had kept for decades. It turned out that a few months after Sarah's family was arrested, Julia's husband's grandparents and family moved into the apartment that Sarah's family rented. Sarah is not on the list of victims of the "Winter Arena Incident", and Julia vows to find out the truth about Sarah's whereabouts. But if the truth is revealed, it may cause more pain, how should human beings face the scars they leave behind. The French film "Sarah's Key" will give us an answer in its own way.
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