Hélène, Lili and Rose are companions in nazi-concentrationcamp Auschwitz. In the chaos at the end of WW II they lose each other. The three meet again, thanx to an annual ad Hélène places, at last in 1962.

Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in the waves...—isajademarilyn

In Auschwitz, the Jews Hélène, Lili and Rose become best friends. In 1945, they leave the concentration camp, and Rose is left behind and considered dead. Hélène moves to Paris and publishes a note in the newspaper trying to find Lili. She befriends the communist Raymond that proposes to marry her. But when she meets her first teenage crush Henri, who was also in Auschwitz, they marry each other. in 1962, Hélène finally finds Lili, who brings Rose with her, surprising Hélène. Lili is divorced and lives in Amsterdam and Rose is married with two children and lives in Montreal. They travel to Berck to spend a few days going to the beach and talking to each other. There they meet Pierre, a young local that teaches children how to swim and dance, and has a playground called Mickey Club. He has a crush on Hélène, who confide her friends that she is still virgin since Henri was castrated in Auschwitz. Lili is free-spirited and Rose married her husband Nathan, who was also in Auschwitz, but the marriage is loveless. Along the days, they try to avoid recalling their lives in Auschwitz, but they seem to be trapped to the past.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil