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From an early age, while still at school, he realized that what he lacked in courage he made up for in intelligence. When faced with physical confrontation, his stomach churns and his breathing becomes noisy, without him being able to prevent it. So he always put up with everything, or almost everything, from his classmates, later at university, and now at work. Until one day everything changes, a colleague gives him the courage he didn't know he had, leading him to the poetic exaggeration of someone who had endured everything until then.
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A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate, enlisting the help of the FBI Agent initially detailed to surveil her.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.