Jean Zay, politician, great minister and emblematic figure of the Front Populaire, Resistance fighter, writer and thinker of immense culture, was imprisoned under Vichy. He was murdered by the French militia in June 1944.

His account of his captivity, the last journey of an exemplary conscience, is a striking insight into his era, a text of great historical value, essential for the quality of its language and its humanist message.