Red Kiss

1952 Paris Nadia a Red Diaper baby has a sister Polish parents and at 15 is an active Communist When cops beat her during an antiAmerican demonstration shes rescued by a Match photographer As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion some of the Red youth want to expel her When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot her father goes to the police Stéphane faces charges so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing In a parallel story Nadias mother meets again her prewar lover released from Siberia who challenges the French Reds with very real scars and word of Stalins antiSemitism