
Ramirez seeks to take revenge on the Bourdelles but they are protected by General Spontz, who is an admirer of Héléna Bourdelle and who has a soft spot for Bernadette. The family is also persecuted by Adolfo Ramirez, the former Paris Opera caretaker and a fierce collaborationist who has become a Gestapo agent.

When they are freed by an elusive vigilante known as "Super-Resistant", Felix finds himself unable to get rid of Michel. Imprisoned after the episode at the Kommandantur, he meets a resistant, Felix, who confides in him, thinking he is about to be shot by the Germans. His insistent desire to join the Resistance leads to many adventures.

Michel Taupin woos without success Bernadette, after initially having views on Colette. While in the Kommandantur, Madame Bourdelle, her daughter Bernadette and Michel Taupin, a tenant in the family house, help by chance the escape an English airman, and are then forced to hide him in their cellar. The Germans brutally take over the whole house and leave the family occupying the cellar, and complaining to the Kommandantur about the excesses of Spontz and his men. Two years later, the family's mansion is requisitioned by German forces to accommodate the General Spontz, transferred from Russia to Paris. Following the defeat, André becomes a leader of the Resistance but he is killed by the accidental explosion of a grenade. They live in a luxurious hôtel particulier in Paris, with their three grown-up children, Bernadette, Colette and Guy-Hubert, and André's father, known as "Gramps". "La Bourdelle", is a world-renowned opera singer and the wife of maestro André Bourdelle. The plot is set in France during the Second World War.
