One Day in France

April 6 1944. A detachment of German soldiers arrive in a rural French town hunting down resistance fighters many of whom are hiding in the region. More than sixty years later the villagers clearly remember the day when four peasants from a nearby village were taken hostage and shot as an example to others. But do they remember the whole story? Jean-Marie Borzeix sets out to investigate the events of Holy Thursday 1944 and to reveal the hidden truths of that fateful day. He uncovers the story of a mysterious 'fifth man' shot alongside the resisters and eventually unravels a trail which leads him to Paris Israel and into the darkest corners of the Holocaust in France. A captivating story the events of this day in a small entirely typical town illuminate the true impact of World War II in France.