Backbone is a story available both as a Drama Feature Film and a TV-Series based on a true story of courage, love and survival in the early 40s. It is also a tribute to the fight for justice against the French established order. It reveals the complexity of allegiances, convictions, and motivations during that period. Integrity and feelings are challenged. No one is then entirely innocent.
As a brilliant French lawyer fights for survival during his deportation to the Nazi death camps for opposing the Germans, his young wife sets on her own path of resistance and justice, but is revenge justice?