The Cat Is Dead

An American soldier and a French Resistance fighter meet during wartime and fall in love. Years later, as a married couple, they travel back to France for a friend's funeral and remember how their romance began in Paris.

His code name in the underground was Jean Barrere. After World War II, in the Normandy town of Moncarnet, Barrere chose burglary as a profession. Because of his techniques, he was nicknamed “Le Cat” by the gendarmes. While being chased after one of his heists, Barrere is hidden by another former underground member, Nicole Maynard, now engaged to an American flyer they had saved. Her fiancé doesn’t understand why Nicole would protect a thief—but Nicole does.

Years later, a husband and his wife return to France to attend the funeral of an old friend. In the city of love, they reminisce the past and remember the first time they met when she was a member of the French Resistance and he, an American soldier.