What can I say? Summer arrived – full of promise. The sun shone brightly, the wind dropped and we even had to drag the air conditioning unit into the office. It was just a cheapo one and is incredibly noisy, hence we tend to use fans unless it’s too hot for the fans to work effectively. It’s not so much that the weather is mega hot; it’s just that, with the two of us working in a small room, each running a PC from dawn to dusk, the heat just becomes overpowering.

Kristin Scott Thomas plays Julia, a reporter for an American news magazine and she sets out to write an article on one of the darkest chapters in the history of France -- about the summer of 1942, when the French police fetched thousands of Jews from the Jewish quarters of Paris, and locked them up in the Velodrome d’hiver arena, waiting for being shipped off to the concentration camps. It turns out that the apartment Julia and her family are about to move into hides some dramatic secrets.