Gilles Perret has always associated the name"Walter" and the word"resistance." Even before knowing what the latter meant, Gilles knew that his neighbor had been sent to a concentration camp called Dachau. Through this story of Walter Bassan, a former resistance fighter and concentration camp internee from the Haute-Savoie, set against the current political backdrop, two questions are constantly asked:"What have we done with the ideals of the National Council of the Resistance?""Can the act of resisting combine with the present?"