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- People from all over the world meet on a weekly basis at the Atelier de conversation of the Bibliothèque publique d'information located in the Centre Pompidou in Paris to practice their French. Refugees of war sit together with businessmen, easy-going students next to victims of political persecution. As diverse as its members might be, they have one goal in common that connects all of them: to learn the language and find companions while living abroad - if not to survive living abroad. At this hopeful place social and cultural borders dissolve. People, who otherwise would never be in touch, meet eye to eye.
- Portrait of the author Gerhard Amanshauser based on his never-ending book project 'Traveling in my own room': his life and work are in dialogue with each other in the form of scenic and literary excursions and trips into the past.
- During WWII Jewish refugees from Austria found a new home in the "Austro Amercian Youth" club. But during the McCarthy era, they feared persecution and expulsion a second time when the club founders were exposed as Communist spies.