At the onset of WWII, AndrA© Severin, a sophisticated scientist and professor at the University of Brussels, prepares his family to emigrate to the south of France. With a staunch belief that the only way to survive a war is on a farm, Severin ignores the criticism of his friends and neighbors to move his family as far from the Belgian border as possible, knowing that the Germans will easily invade the tiny country.
Given a Buick for the trip by his father-in-law, AndrA©, his family, his brothera ™s family and his parents, pile in the car and flee across the border to France just days ahead of the Nazi invasion of Belgium.
Seeking survival and a meaningful God, AndrA© leads his family deep into the CA©vennes Mountains of the south of France. Non-practicing but part of a large Jewish family, they find protection among the Protestant Huguenots. When the Gestapo orders the arrest of the Severins, the French Marquis hides the family as AndrA© joins the Resistance.
In This Hospitable Land is a tale of simple courage and the depths of human compassion in a time of horror.