This foreign movie approached World War II from a rather unexplored angle. What was of the survivors afterwards? How did they cope with all these horrific memories? How did they struggle to reconcile the past with the future? What about the thousands of stories shared about what others endured? Their mental health, their emotional sanity? How to trust in human kind again? Are the dead ones, actually dead? How do they feel when, at the end of their lives, the possibility of dying, again, is a matter to deal with?
Not that all these thoughts were portrayed in the movie, but for sure were considerations in my mind as I was watching the turmoil inside this woman’s heart once she found out that the man she loved and believed dead, was very alive!