In 1937, Lisette Roux and her husband, André, move from Paris to Provence to care for André's grandfather, Pascal. Pascal was a pigment salesman and frame maker; he befriended Pissarro and Cézanne, and traded his frames for paintings. When war breaks out, André hides Pascal's art collection to keep the paintings out of the Nazis' reach before he himself goes off to the front. Then, as the Germans come closer and set up the Vichy government, Lisette sets out to locate and move the hidden art works.
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