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After the landing of the Allied forces in 1944, writer Louis Guilloux was recruited as an interpreter for the American army. He would soon be confronted with the dark side of liberation: the violence committed by American soldiers on civilians, the army's system of racial segregation and selective punishment of Black American soldiers. Haunted by what he witnessed, he went on to recount this little-known side of the Allied liberation in his 1976 novel OK, Joe!. Sparked by the recent reissue of Guilloux’s novel, director Philippe Baron set out through the Breton countryside to retrace this suppressed history. Interspersing archival footage, interviews, and scenes from modern-day Breton countryside, Baron crafts an unsettling account of the forgotten tragedies of World War II.