Nissim dit Max

In a home environment, two sons, Pierre and Vladimir, ask their father Max Léon about his biography. What could be simple family chat broadens into the complex dimensions of history, since the father’s life was part of destiny, firstly in the French Resistance, then as a leading militant in the Communist Party. The two archivists then as a leading militant in the Communist Party. The two activists then widen the circle to listen to their mother, Svettlana, their sister, Michele, and other people, all comrades who had shared the same utopian vision: Jacques Rossi, a former Komintern agent who was deported to a Gulag, and Marina Vlady, who lived in the URSS in the 1930s and later married the protest singer Vladimir Vyssotsky. History is examined through conversations that do not exclude silence or calling into question.