In the dead of night,eighty-three-year-old MarcelGrobissequesteredby an investigating judge who questions him about his past.Particularlybeginning on June 28, 1944, the day when "Marzell," liketen thousandof his German-speaking peers from the French borderland province of Alsace, became a member of the Nazis' infamous Waffen SS. But did the teenager volunteer,or was he conscripted by the Nazis? Was he a "Malgré-nous," one of those forced to comply, or was he a war criminal? To establish the truth of his troubled past, MarcelGrobwill have to revisit painful memories as an adolescent forced to fight in Italy with the sinisterReichsführerdivision. Determined to prove his innocence, Marcel begins the story of a long journey into night.