The Flight Portfolio

In the harrowing days of 1940, as Nazi Germany tightens its grip on Europe, Harvard-educated journalist and editor Varian Fry arrives in Marseille, France, on a covert mission. Sent by the Emergency Rescue Committee, a group of concerned New Yorkers, Fry’s daunting task is to save prominent artists, writers, and intellectuals—many of them Jewish—from the Gestapo’s reach and help them escape to the United States. Operating under immense pressure and in defiance of restrictive U.S. immigration policies, Fry must navigate a treacherous world of false passports, clandestine escape routes through the Pyrenees, and desperate sea passages. He faces impossible moral dilemmas, forced to make life-and-death decisions about who can be saved, all while enduring profound personal transformation. Amidst the chaos and danger, Fry's own life becomes entangled in forbidden love and high-stakes adventure, revealing a story of unimaginable courage and the extraordinary lengths one man went to preserve intellectual and artistic freedom during humanity's darkest hour.