All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See | Official Trailer | Netflix
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Started watching this mini-series (4 episodes) last night and it's pretty great. We have a blind young woman who is holed up in her family home in St. Malo, France, while the Allies are bombing the bejesus out of the place. There's no food and the Nazis, who are nominally in charge, have locked the city gates - no one gets in or out. This is like two months after D-day, the Nazis are on the back foot and determined to hold out to the last man. Well, some of them are.

There is a radio transmitter in the girl's house and every evening she goes on the air and reads Shakespeare into the ether. One German soldier has been listening to a station broadcasting on that same frequency ever since he was in high school. He is supposed to be tracking her down because Nazis good, radio bad, but he's been listening to this same station since forever, he can see how the war is going, and he's the only one on the job, so if he says he can't find her, she can't be found.

There's also a mean Nazi who is also looking for the girl because he is convinced she has a precious jewel with magical powers that will cure him of whatever disease he is suffering from. He doesn't care about the war or any of the people in the town either. He just wants the jewel and he will kill anyone who won't tell him where the girl is.

Locking the gates of the town sounds medieval. Well the town is:

St. Malo, France, after the battle

St. Malo today