The Hoffman Affairs

<p>While searching the Montmartre Cemetery for his lost father's grave<strong> Henri Hoffman</strong> a Parisian boy of eleven meets an orphaned German teenager named <strong>Monika</strong>. Alone Henri allows the homeless girl to reside with him and the two struggle together in occupied Paris from 1942-1945. Eight years after liberation along with their toddler<strong> Jacqueline</strong> the couple joins Henri's cousin <strong>Manny Hoffman</strong><strong> </strong>an ex-GI in New York City where they're welcomed in by his close-knit gentle family-Manny's wife spinster sisters and aspiring-actress niece. As the years wear on the family fractures as familial relationships are sabotaged by the traumatic brutality of a haunted past-a past that by the 1960s is feeding on the destruction of new generations. </p><p>Will the wounds of war continue to drive the Hoffman family into the darkness of repression manipulation and abuse-or will they wake from their post-war fugue and rise above their individual tragedies before more children die?</p>