The Ballerina of Paris

Paris, 1942. Léa Beaumont is the star of the Paris Opera, dancing for the German officers who have taken over her city. They do not know that she was once a Jewish refugee from Odessa, or that the stage they applaud has become her cover.

In the cellars of the Palais Garnier, Léa and her childhood friend Marguerite hide Jewish children from the officers who fill the seats above. But when a German officer falls in love with Léa, the role she is playing becomes dangerously real. And an SS officer has begun watching her far more closely.

Brooklyn, 1990. After her grandmother’s death, Charlotte opens a drawer that was always kept locked. Inside are a pair of worn pointe shoes, an old opera program, and the photograph of a German officer. On the back, in his handwriting: For my Léa, forever.

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