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It’s so difficult for him to get into the day. „Leutnant“ no longer manages to get up in the morning: a man who has lost something, a man suffering from transcendental homelessness. What do they think of him – the others, the teacher Alba, his colleagues? He keeps ordering new mattresses, sending the old ones back. One day, the carrier enters Leutnant's apartment.
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Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.