In the wake of his son's death, a grieving Frédérick (Guy Marchand) makes a vow to be more open with those he cares about. But the secret he's been keeping since the end of World War II is something that no one -- save his wife and son -- would ever guess. Long before opening up his unassuming tree nursery, he was deported and shamed and then sent to die in a Nazi concentration camp. But he survived and built a new life as a family man.