Natalia 1988 1940A Polish immigrants daughter,Natalia ,is a registered student in a dramatic art school in Paris Her diction leaves something to be desired but she dreams of movie stardom As she works as an extra for a famous director Paul Langlades film, she tries ,by becoming his mistress,to make her dream come true Her ambition knows no bounds she refuses to see her parents ,she leaves her boyfriend, Tomazs ,a young intellectual,a Jew like herself During French occupation , she gets false papers ,thanks to collaborationist journalists While she is doing a film , a set photographer gives her away to the Gestapo She is sent to a concentration camp She survives,but when she is released, her parents and Tomazs are dead ,and she has become a woman in very poor health ,in search of her true identity