A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France: Richmond Mouillot, Miranda

A young woman moves across an ocean to uncover the truth about her grandparents' mysterious estrangement and pieces together the extraordinary story of their wartime experiences In 1948, after surviving World War II by escaping Nazi-occupied France for refugee camps in Switzerland, Miranda's grandparents, Anna and Armand, bought an old stone house in a remote, picturesque village in the South of France.

Five years later, Anna packed her bags and walked out on Armand, taking the typewriter and their children.

Aside from one brief encounter, the two never saw or spoke to each other again, never remarried, and never revealed what had divided them forever.