Description

Youthful Andre* visits his grandma, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly each summer. In a dirty village ignoring the huge Russian steppes, she captivates her son and another kids of the village with marvelous talesÑwatching Proust play football in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas IIÕs trip to Paris, French leader Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from his mystical grandma Andre* also understands of the raw injustice he's never known: a nation of distress and starvation, Spain, and the impossible chaos of battle. Fascinated, he weaves her tales into their own key world of desire and storage.