In Paris, Isabelle returns from the Vizniaks’ looted apartment to find her father, Julien Rossignol, passed out drunk at the table. Unable to sleep after their tense silence, Isabelle goes back out to see what is happening to the Jewish families she warned about.

Outside, Isabelle sees buses packed with children and mothers and learns they are being taken to the V’3lodrome d’Hiver. A French policeman warns her to leave and admits orders include shooting escapees. Isabelle runs to the stadium and watches thousands of yellow-starred men, women, and children herded inside; a policeman confirms the plan: single men to Drancy, families to the V’3l d’Hiv, then deportation “east” to work camps. When Isabelle asks if it is only Paris, the policeman tells her it is only the beginning, revealing the roundup is wider than she feared.

In Carriveau, Vianne queues for food and visits Rachel with Sophie, sharing scarce bread and cheese and hearing Rachel’s despair over the restrictions imposed by the yellow star. Captain Beck arrives and quietly warns that Rachel “should not be at home tomorrow,” implying an imminent list-based roundup; he indicates Rachel’s French-born children are not targeted. Vianne decides Beck is credible and urges Rachel to hide, even as both women understand the mortal risk to anyone who helps.

That evening, Vianne drugs Sophie’s drink so Sophie will sleep through what Vianne must do. Beck, uneasy about the “impossible things” unfolding, gives Vianne a route: a cattle trail to a lightly manned checkpoint, and he offers to see Sophie safely to Paris if Vianne disappears. Vianne meets Rachel, Sarah, and baby Ari behind the barn; Rachel has costly false papers, and the women attempt the crossing before curfew.

At the checkpoint, as Rachel nears the front of the queue, German guards suddenly open fire on the crowd. In the chaos, Sarah is hit; Vianne drags the family back into the woods, then pushes Sarah in a wheelbarrow to Le Jardin. Sarah dies in Rachel’s arms after Rachel lies that they are safely across, and Vianne forces herself to act: she hides Rachel and Ari in the barn cellar and prepares to bury Sarah, knowing they cannot even safely grieve.