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In 1942, the Ukrananian writer Irene Nemirovsky died in Auschwitz. She left behind small daughters and a suitcase which they were not to open for more than 40 years. Within it lay the two completed novels of the five she intended to write in her Suite Francaise, a fictional account of France under German occupation.
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An accidental death and a promise of life.
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The Michauds and Gabriel Corte experience the aftermath of the armistice.
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Violence and consolation as the Pericand family suffer the aftershocks of the invasion.
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Dispersed across France by the invading enemy, Charles Langelet, old Pericand and Jean-Marie Michaud are finding their own ways to deal with the upheaval that has swept their country.
Mondays to Fridays 2pm, repeated 11pm
Monday 07 July 2008
Korean born Australian computer programmer, Ko, has designed radical software, to challenge Korea's politicians and their ineptitude in solving Korea's division. Madam Cha, Ko's wife from whom Ko has long been separated by misadventure, pursues the same aim. She is now the hostess of The Little Blue House, an establishment that caters for visiting VIP's with Korea's traditional art and cuisine. She is secretly helping a group of underground activists that plans a national reunfication march, but Cha cannot pass up the chance to seek revenge for the wreck of her family when the opportunity arises. The paths of Ko and Cha converge only when Korea's divison has inflicted on them a tragedy beyond redemption.
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