This is the story of a blind French girl and a boy from Germany, who come together in occupied France during the World War II. Blind since a tender age, Marie-Laure lives a seemingly regular life with her doting father in Paris. A master locksmith at the Museum of Natural History, her father refuses to let his daughter's loss of vision handicap her. He builds her a wooden model of their Parisian neighborhood to remember by touch. However, as Paris is invaded by Nazis during the World War II, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo. The other main character of the book, Werner Pfenning lives in the orphan house in Zollverein, Germany. He is gifted with a natural aptitude for science and an uncanny ability to work with radios. As his knack for radio mechanics is discovered, he is inducted into the prestigious Nazi training school. He travels through the war and reaches Saint-Malo. It is here when the story of both characters converge. The book switches timelines in its narration of the stories of both the characters. Eventually, the story traces the intermingling of the lives of the French girl and the Nazi soldier, joined and separated by destiny. Fresh with the horrors of the Second World War and its impacts, "All the Light We Cannot See" is a definite try for a follower of War fiction and admirer of literal fluency.