What if everything you believed about someone was wrong?

For most of her life, Caroline assumed that her grandmother, Rita, was a cold-hearted woman whose self-centered choices had wounded her family. Then she began investigating.

Drawing on archives, interviews, family documents, and Rita’s own books, Caroline uncovered a very different story: a half-Jewish mother navigating extreme trauma and impossible choices while living under German occupation.

The Truth Was Different is both a compelling true story and an exploration of family, memory, and the uncomfortable distance between what we’re told and what really happened.