To Life

In Auschwitz, the Jews Helene, Lili and Rose become best friends. In 1945, they leave the concentration camp, and Rose is left behind and considered dead. Helene moves to Paris and publishes a note in the newspaper trying to find Lili. She befriends the communist Raymond that proposes to marry her. But when she meets her first teenage crush Henri, who was also in Auschwitz, they marry each other. in 1962, Helene finally finds Lili, who brings Rose with her, surprising Helene. Lili is divorced and lives in Amsterdam and Rose is married with two children and lives in Montreal. They travel to Berck to spend a few days going to the beach and talking to each other. There they meet Pierre, a young local that teaches children how to swim and dance, and has a playground called Mickey Club. He has a crush on Helene, who confide her friends that she is still virgin since Henri was castrated in Auschwitz. Lili is free-spirited and Rose married her husband Nathan, who was also in Auschwitz, but the marriage is loveless. Along the days, they try to avoid recalling their lives in Auschwitz, but they seem to be trapped to the past.