All the Light We Cannot See traces the stories of three main characters whose lives intersect during the WWII bombing of the German-occupied French town of Saint-Malo in August 1944.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is an intimate and personal story of a French girl and a German boy who are drawn together while trying to keep out of the reach of Nazis during the devastation of World War II and French Resistance.

Marie-Laure Leblanc lives in Paris, France, where her father, Daniel Leblanc, works as a locksmith at the Museum of Natural History. As a young girl, Marie-Laure loses her eyesight but not her independence. Her father builds a miniature model of her neighbourhood so she can learn by touch and navigate her way home. In June 1940, when she was 12 years old, the threat of German occupation grew too great to ignore. Marie-Laure and Daniel flee from Paris to Saint-Malo, where they move in with her great-uncle, Etienne, and his housekeeper, Madame Manec. It is there that their paths cross with Werner Pfennig.

An orphan, Werner lives in Germany with his younger sister, Jutta. After becoming enchanted by a crude radio they find, Werner develops a knack for building and fixing these vital new communication instruments. His skill wins him a place at the academy for Hitler Youth–but his heart rebels at the brutality. He winds up in Saint-Malo, where he meets a blind girl and her father, who carry the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel - the Sea of Flames.

All the Light We Cannot See is a New York Times Best Seller, which also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was a National Book Award Finalist. The Netflix limited series will be released sometime in 2023, starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and Aria Mia Loberti.