September 1939 in a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference In Paris people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe - not one of them ready to fight Cutting from one scene to the next, Sartre depicts the hopes, fears and self-deception of Munich, building a powerful montage of that critical week when Europe, it its pathetic longing for a reprieve, blinkered itself against the threat of war