Pebbles at my window

June 18, 1940: on the island of Sein, a small rock lost off the coast of Brittany, 128 men decide to join General de Gaulle, leaving their wives and children behind. Marie is 16 years old, watching the boat leave with her father and Jean, one of her classmates, on board.
Marie’s story and Jean’s diary then intertwine.
One evening, her friend Yvette comes to fetch Marie: the “English,” as the fishermen who left to join De Gaulle are called, need to smuggle an agent of the Free French Forces onto the mainland. They need someone who knows the dangerous sea passages to help him disembark, and there are only women left on the island.
For Yvette and Marie, their involvement in the network led by Thomas begins. A few stones thrown at the window in the middle of the night and the two young women leave their island for Nantes, where they will serve as cover: Marie will pretend to be the wife of Paul, one of the resistance fighters, and Yvette will play the role of Thomas’s daughter. But the two friends mope while the men take action, and Marie can no longer bear to languish all day waiting for the return of Paul, with whom she fell in love at first sight and with whom she has shared a bed for a month… The network having been betrayed by one of their own, Paul and the fishermen are imprisoned in Germany, and Thomas is shot.
At the same time, we follow Jean’s journey on a submarine hunter in Newlynn. With his best friend, Pierre, they experience their first battles, torn between fear and enthusiasm, until Jean falls into the water during an attack. Rescued, he is deeply affected and begins to think more and more about Marie.
At the end of the war, Marie and Jean are reunited in Sein. Together, they will try to overcome their losses.