In 1940, France surrendered. In 1941, Jacques Lusseyran while he was blind and not yet eighteen, joins the resistance movement in defense of France. On July 20, 1943, he was arrested by the Gestapo, interrogated for endless days and locked in Fresnes. He was deported in 1944 to Buchenwald. How did he survive this hell? With the protection of a group of Russians and his knowledge of Germans that will enable it to inform other prisoners of the SS for the actions. After a year and a half of horror, he was released and returned to France where he will continue his studies affirming his literary aspirations swept by war.