National Network for Equitable Library Service

Set in 1994 Paris, Aimée Leduc fears that a 1960s Communist gang is on the loose--and her long-lost mother just may be one of them.

A childhood friend of Aimée, now a policewoman, is accused of shooting her partner.

Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district.

Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants.