Rentrée 42, bienvenue les enfants !

1942, an unexpected return...

It is Thursday October 1, 1942, it is the eve of the start of the school year at the Victor Hugo girls' elementary school in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, the teachers meet after the summer holidays to prepare for the start of the school year... There a Gisèle Blanc, Madame the director, a refined woman with the gentle and firm authority of one who knows… There is Monique Ricou, a committed mistress (she is a communist), friend of Gisèle Blanc, she does not have her language in his pocket, this era of denunciations and compromises revolts him.
There is Lucienne Tatillard, a woman full of empathy, with a life set like a clock, who loves her job more than anything. And Suzy Courcelles, a young teacher, beautiful and radiant, who wants to succeed, she loves the theater and Marshal Pétain... In this school, the guard is Adolphe Bastien, a veteran of 14-18, he lost an arm in the war, joker, helpful, he doesn't like the Fridolins.
Finally an inspector will come to visit the school, it is Mr Person, he is invested with the new directives of national education, anti-Semitic, he intends to straighten out the moral values ​​of the French school...