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In devastated war times, a poor woodcutter and his wife live in a large forest. One day, a woman finds and saves a little girl, irreversibly changing the lives of the couple and those the little girl meets. I am Michel Hazanavicius the first animated film.. World War II is one of the darkest periods of humanity. A time when humanity had just given up the gray war and when the world witnessed the extent of human cruelty. A time when rebirth, redemption and peace were promised. The hand of faith has just struck Europe in its most monstrous and familiar way, making it fall upon the enormous debt of the Great War and the Lost Generation. The world has stopped, not because of Schick, or at least not only because of him, but because of what lies beneath him. An even darker future awaits the greatest tragedy that has ever struck the Earth. Germany was in ruins: it had just lost the war, the faith of its people and the strength of its empire. Revenge was sworn for humiliation. A few years after this particularly dark time, there was a humble, elderly couple of German lumberjacks. The man goes to cut down the big trees and the woman ties up the smaller branches. They both spend a hard day’s work to get to a small house in the middle of the forest, where whipped soup and a tired old dog await them. The woman has never had children, for whom she begs with all she has, she has abandoned God or has never consulted with Him. She begs the sky, the forest and even the train gods to give her a train. And one day the train gods answered her prayers. In that deserted corner of the forest, a train was moving through the white winter snow, slowly but surely reaching its dreaded destination. And one day they throw the child off the train and are picked up by an old wooden house. A cruel thing for some, but not for her. What follows is a masterfully conceived tragedy, a story about humanity: the loving force within it that builds and sacrifices, and its intrinsically evil side that takes revenge and fights back. Michel Hazanavicius’ animated film adopts a very comic style that drags you into the heart of an enchanted forest and, together with its eccentric cast of characters and the dark setting of the Second World War, is one of the most tear-jerking films of recent years. great successes. A beautiful farewell to the illustrious career of Jean Louis Trintignant.