Barbara, an international literary rights agent, starts a new life in Paris as a refugee. In attempt to put an experience that almost drove her mad behind her, she goes to live in the home of her grandmother, Margaux, with whom she shares a very special relationship. One morning in 2008, the year of the great snowfall, Barabara finds a young stranger asleep on her red sofa. The young photographer, who never photographs people, will help her with an unanticipated investigation. Together they will uncover all the secrets of mamie Margaux, a woman who survived the German occupation of Paris during the second world war. The Thirty-second of March is a novel about the battle between horror and beauty.