The Future Awaits (La vie devant moi) focuses on one Jewish family hidden in a Paris chambre de bonne after the Vél d’Hiv roundup, guided by the real testimony of Tauba Birenbaum. Niels Tavernier’s film is strongest when it sticks to that narrow premise: the claustrophobia of silence, the grinding fear of being discovered, the moral courage of Rose and Désiré, the ordinary couple who choose to hide them.