-A kazillion leaflets blow across the sky: "Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town. Depart immediately to open country."

-American units prepare to drop bombs into Saint-Malo, France

-The units are ironically named after some feel-good jazzy songs: Stardust, Stormy Weather, In the Mood and Pistol-Packin' Mama

-We get introduced to "the girl" (Marie-Laure LeBlanc). She is a blind French sixteen-year-old who lives on the sixth floor of Number 4 rue Vauborel, Saint-Malo. 

-Marie owns a miniature model of Saint-Malo. The model was created by her father. Her great-uncle Etienne went out the previous night but has not returned.

-She hears the bombers and knows that they are getting closer to her.

-We now meet "the boy" (Werner Pfennig). He is a German eighteen-year-old private and is currently five streets away from Marie in the cellar of the Hotel of Bees.

-Hotel of Bees used to have cheerful cafe vibes, now it is a fortress that contains the cannon Her Majesty.

-The American units are now a few miles away and Her Majesty fires three shots.

-Sirens wail as bombs are being dropped into Saint-Malo. Marie crawls under her bed and holds on to a teardrop-shaped-stone that she hid in her miniature model and a miniature model of her house and whispers "Papa?"

-Werner listens to the radio and to the Austrians singing while firing Her Majesty. He thinks of home and his caretaker Frau Elena and his little sister Jutta.

-We find out that Marie's great uncle Etienne is locked inside the gates of Fort National with hundreds of others.