A forgotten masterpiece waiting to be discovered, a unique historical document: "When Time Stood Still," the moving diary of the great writer and journalist Léon Werth from occupied France during the Vichy regime from 1940 to 1944. In the summer of 1940, the Germans occupy Paris. The French publicist and critic Léon Werth, of Jewish descent, a pacifist and anti-colonialist, flees and hides in a village in the Jura. Refugees and villagers live together here, eager for news, isolated yet close to the events unfolding around them. France is deeply divided, the republic and democracy are under threat, and nationalists welcome the German victory. Léon Werth depicts this cosmos in his unique diary. A world caught between fear and hope, where people search for their path, surrender, collaborate, or resist.