Olivier van Malderghem

Description : Belgium, 1943. The situation is becoming unbearable for the Field family : antisemitic persecutions become common and violent. Joseph Field, the father, rebels against the occupying army. He is arrested and deported. Esther, his wife, decides to go “underground”: she enters the clandestinity. She gives her oldest son to look after with Hermann, her father-in-law. He knows an escape n

Every weekend, Anne and Jeff go to the Mettet motorcycle circuit. A racing driver, Jeff is training. Anne takes his lap times. Occasionally, at the Au Circuit café, she negotiates bitterly over the phone the loan of the motorbike. Anne's gaze then meets that of Jacques, a client who, like his sidekick René is part of the furniture. They never exchange a word. One day, Jacques sets off. He joins her at the counter.