Germany, 1933. Hitler seizes power and forces German Jews into exile who, from 1933 to 1939, fled Nazi persecution. How did the young Hannah Arendt and millions of German Jews flee their country to take refuge in France? How, from a welcoming land, did France turn into hell for all the exiles?

Traveling across Europe from east to west, from Berlin to Paris, to the United States and New York, we will meet German, French and American historians, jurists and philosophers to tell the story of Hannah Arendt and this world whose echoes are still heard today.​