An Irishman in Paris

About the power of writing - Samuel Beckett's years of war When the Second World War breaks out, the writer is in his parents' home in Ireland. The mother is happy, she always wants the son near her. Nevertheless, the young man leaves his safe home and returns to the circle of artists around James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp and his lover in Paris. As his friends gradually disappear, he joins the Resistance. Jo Baker approaches the mysterious Samuel Beckett over the dark years of his artistic beginnings and shows how the years of deprivation and endless waiting for an end marked his work, which became world-famous decades later.