Two armed resistance fighters speak with a young woman on the threshold of a building. The oblique framing and the late afternoon light give the scene an immediate presence. The image evokes the life of the Resistance groups in the maquis.
“As a member of the Underground Press Committee, I found myself mobilized on August 20, 1944, under the orders of a loudmouthed journalist who, the day before, had awarded himself two lieutenant's stripes. ‘You must be wherever there's shooting,’ an order made all the easier by the fact that there was shooting from all sides.” (P. Jahan, Objectif)