Great figure of editing the post-sixty-huitarde left, François Maspero has just left us, leaving us including this "small" very secret novel, very modest and very real who raises an unknown chapter of history: that tropezien the hinterland occupied by Mussolini's troops in 1942, then by the Germans, before it is first disfigured by the Allied landings and the reconstruction of Côte d'Azur delivered to developers and without memory floods of tourists. Around Lise, a young orphan, emerge and radiate Virgil, his grandfather, the legendary wolf uncle communist uncompromising, young Mario soldier who awakens to love before being sent to the Russian front, Gilles, a distant cousin whom she will cling ... All will live and die as they can, like so many waves driven by history, leaving us filled with emotion and respect, once the book is closed, alone with our time .