The play was jointly written with Lion Feuchtwanger and was completed during their exile in Los Angeles.
[1][2] In the play, an adolescent girl named Simone works at a gas station in central France.
While engrossed in a book about Saint Joan, she slips into a series of dreams in which the real persons in her life take on other identities.
Her brother appears as an angel, her boss as the coward Connetand, and herself as Saint Joan who helps starving refugees and defies her employer.
The Germans hand her over to the French as a mere arsonist, and she is led away by nuns to a mental institution.