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The story begins with a young woman named Malena going to a Halloween costume party with her friend Mila. After getting into a fight with her ex-boyfriend at the party, Malena finds herself alone on deserted streets. She narrowly avoids being hit by a truck and takes shelter in a bar. However, this is no ordinary bar; she finds herself in 1940s Germany, in a town filled with SS. At first, she thinks it's all a massive LARP (live-action role-play), but events gradually become all too real. She catches the attention of Ernst, an SS officer.
The story progresses through a struggle for survival in the forest, conflicts, unexpected alliances, and increasingly complicated relationships.
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"But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world." - Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Lucile, rebuilding.
(Or - my imaginary renderings of what actually happened after the end of the 2015 film Suite Française, based on the novel by Irene Némirovsky)
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Arthur is an investment banker. He is professional and efficient. He's a halfway decent cook. He's totally independent and has been since the age of eighteen. Maybe he's tired all the time because he works about ninety hours a week which is twice what normal people do, but he's rich and he's competent at his job. He's almost thirty, and already a success.
And there are some things Arthur is not. For instance: Arthur is not gay.
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- Part 1 of Rough Trade
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Cobb brings Arthur home. Arthur stays.
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Arthur wakes up and realizes the last ten years of his life have been a dream. He is nineteen, and he can barely remember where he is. What he can remember is the ghost of Eames’ hands pressed down on his chest trying frantically to stop the blood flooding up around his fingers as Arthur died (as he woke up).