Lazarre

The narrative follows displaced French émigrés who shelter in a repurposed London church close, where children and adults negotiate awkward intimacy and suspicion. A spirited little girl named Eagle befriends a dazed, injured boy while neighbors gossip and express hostility toward the newcomers, and the close's mixed uses—smithy, shops, living rooms—reveal contrasts between domestic life and political exile. Interwoven episodes show family members confronting choices about return, survival, and strained loyalties, including a tense encounter when a woman tracks a man living in the woods and demands to know his intentions. Themes of displacement, social prejudice, and the collision of private grief with public rumor run throughout.