It is September 1938 and during a heatwave, Europe tensely awaits the outcome of
the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris,
people are waiting too, among them Mathieu, Jacques and Philippe, each wrestlin
g with their own love affairs, doubts and angsts - and none of them ready to fig
ht. The second volume in Sartre's wartime Roads to Freedom trilogy, "The Repriev
e" cuts between locations and characters to build an impressionistic collage of
the hopes, fears and self-deception of an entire continent as it blinkers itself
against the imminent threat of war.
