Paris in the summer of 1937. A giant funeral procession
wends its way from the city center eastward
toward the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, accompanied
by the sounds of Chopin's funeral
march. The photojournalist Gerda Taro had been
killed in the Spanish Civil War a few days earlier.
Thousands come to pay their last respects to the
émigrée from Hitler's Germany. The poet Louis
Aragon speaks at the graveside, young girls hold
up a large portrait of the deceased. Why did the ...