In wartime, a poor lumberjack and his wife live in a large forest. One day, the wife finds and rescues a little girl, bringing about an irrevocable change in the lives of the couple and those whose paths the little girl will cross. This is the first animated film by Michel Hazanavicius. This is the best 2024 release I've seen so far this year, and we're in the middle of December 2024. It tells a story set in Poland during World War II, almost like a fairy tale. Most of the action takes place in a forest typical of the aforementioned folk tales, which is about a lumberjack couple who adopt a little Jewish girl who was thrown off a deportation train passing through their forest. She was thrown by her father to save her from certain death in Auschwitz. I won't go into plot details so you can see for yourself, I'll just add that the film will come to a deeply philosophical conclusion. Technically, everything is perfectly done too. The images in the film are exceptionally crafted. The drawing style is perfect, neither too detailed nor too crude, it mainly shows scenes in low light with dominant gray tones, thus highlighting the horrors of the most notorious war and mass destruction event in the history of mankind. And then the soundtrack, which is magnificent: the soundtrack, the sound effects, the narration and the dubbing (I saw the original version in French), all absolutely appropriate to present this gem of a film. In summary, due to its artistic approach and the story it wants to tell, it is one of the best films to deal with the issue of racism and in particular the Shoah.