So we follow the adventures of Joseph. In this second volume, no more flashbacks that could be difficult to follow in the first volume, but had given a true depth to the characters through the flagship events in their history. We move to a more linear story, that of Joseph adventures in occupied France and submitted to the Nazi occupation.
Jospeh finally made one choice: to not go to America and not to leave the professional success he built as and when his personal history. The rest of his fate seems a little escape. It is caught in a trap. It has indeed need protectors poursuivres his affairs in occupied France. They are being replaced by other protective getting better placed in the system, but whose brown uniform to progressively: passing from police headquarters to the German army and the SS and Gestapo . As and when this movement, Joseph has less and less room to maneuver, he is left to pay to survive because its survival ultimately depends on the financial interest that it represents for its partners Business. At the same time, our contractor the opportunity to ensure the salvation of his family and his workers, but it moves away more and more of his community (tensions with his brother show, just like the last planks in this volume Joseph where we see a holder of a certificate of Aryan, framed by two SS, which passes between the ranks of future victims of the occupant under the accusing eyes of the latter.)
Comics are without consession: the authors show the ambiguities of the characters, the renunciations, the meanness, cynicism and does not avoid violence, torture ... In short, everything that has also made the life of this troubled time .