Summer 1918.
The First World War is drawing to a close when Leon Le Gall, a French teenager from Cherbourg who has dropped out of school and left home, falls in love with Louise Janvier.
Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead.
Briefly reunited two decades later, the two lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Leon's marriage and by the German invasion of France.
In occupied Paris during the Second World War, wher.
