Estelle Moufflarge was deported to Auschwitz on October 28, 1943. She would never come back. Decades later, Bastien François discovered that this teenage girl lived just a few buildings from his home in Paris. Thus begins a meticulous and fascinating investigation to piece together the life of this young orphan, the daughter of poor immigrants, caught up in the whirlwind of History. Therein lies the challenge: telling the story of Estelle’s life, without unjustly reducing it to her death.