It's 1941 and seventy-two year-old Clementine's favourite haunt, Madame Boulette's, is crawling with Nazis. When the cabaret's prize songbird recruits Clem to steal the recipe book of a now-missing famous Parisian perfumer, she can't say no. Hoping to buy the time and trust she needs to pull off her scheme, Clem decides to tell Oskar Voss, a Francophile Nazi bureaucrat the real story of the life and loves she came to Paris to escape. But Clem doesn't have much practice telling the truth and it turns out to be more dangerous than she could have imagined.
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