Les brumes du souvenir (2017)
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Gaëlle Bona, David Kammenos, Mhamed Arezki, Didier Flamand, Pascal Elso, Robert Plagnol
A murder in Verdun’s red zone draws an investigator into the mystery of a woman who vanished decades earlier.
The story
In Verdun’s red zone, Jean Mercier, mayor of the ghost village of Bezonvaux, is found murdered. Clara Merisi, a captain in the criminal investigation unit at the Nancy Regional Judicial Police Department, takes charge of the case with assistance from the Verdun gendarmerie and François Gilbert, a forensic anthropologist and historian at the Douaumont Ossuary. Days later, Gilbert uncovers a woman’s body near the crime scene. Her death dates not to the Great War but to the 1980s, and she had disappeared around thirty years earlier. The discoveries set a local investigation against the haunting backdrop of a battlefield landscape.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Verdun, at the heart of the red zone. Jean Mercier, mayor of the ghost village of Bezonvaux, is found murdered. The investigation is assigned to Clara Merisi, a captain in the criminal investigation unit at the Nancy Regional Judicial Police Department. At the scene, she is assisted by the Verdun gendarmerie, as well as by François Gilbert, a forensic anthropologist and historian working at the Douaumont Ossuary. A few days later, he is the one who unearths, near the crime scene, the body of a woman whose death certainly did not date back to the Great War, but rather to the 1980s. In the middle of this red zone, populated by the ghosts of the battlefield, this crime and then the discovery of this woman, dead thirty years after her disappearance, tell a simple story, alongside the grand sweep of History: that of a family...
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