German soldiers stop Annemarie, Ellen, and Kirsti on their walk home from school and question all three girls.

The girls discover that Mrs. Hirsch's button shop has been padlocked shut with a German sign bearing a swastika.

Peter visits the Johansen family after curfew and warns that the Nazis are closing Jewish-owned shops across the city.

The rabbi informs his congregation that the Germans have demanded a list of all Jewish names in the community.

The Johansen family hides Ellen in their apartment and passes her off as their eldest daughter, Lise.

German soldiers pound on the Johansen apartment door in the middle of the night and demand entry.

Mr. Johansen produces baby photographs of dark-haired Lise to convince the soldiers that Ellen is truly their daughter.

The Johansen family decides to send Mrs. Johansen and the girls to Uncle Henrik's seaside farmhouse after the soldiers' visit.

Uncle Henrik announces that Great-Aunt Birte has died and that a funeral gathering will be held at his house.

German officers arrive at the farmhouse and demand to know why so many people have gathered together at night.

Peter opens the coffin at the funeral and reveals it contains blankets and clothing rather than a body.

Annemarie finds the dropped packet on the farmhouse doorstep and volunteers to run it through the dark forest to Henrik's boat.

Four German soldiers with dogs stop Annemarie in the forest and demand to search the basket she is carrying.

A soldier tears open the mysterious packet, finds only a handkerchief inside, and lets Annemarie pass.

Uncle Henrik explains that the handkerchief carried a special chemical that temporarily ruined the military dogs' sense of smell.

This pool traces the central narrative of Number the Stars, beginning the moment German soldiers confront Annemarie and her friends on the streets of Copenhagen and the threat to Jewish families becomes undeniable. The Johansen family risks everything by hiding Ellen in their apartment and passing her off as their dead daughter Lise when soldiers come pounding at the door in the night. Fleeing to Uncle Henrik's seaside farmhouse, the family uses a fake funeral as cover to gather Jewish refugees for a secret boat crossing to Sweden. The tension peaks when a crucial packet is accidentally dropped and Annemarie must carry it alone through a dark forest past armed soldiers and trained dogs to save the refugees aboard the boat. Only after the escape does Uncle Henrik reveal the packet's secret — a handkerchief treated with a chemical that temporarily destroyed the dogs' ability to smell out the hidden Jews.

The core story of hiding Ellen and getting the Rosens safely to Sweden.

Kirsti pushes a German soldier's hand away, and the charmed soldier compares her to his daughter and lets the group go.

Mrs. Rosen instructs the girls to walk a different route to school so the soldiers will not recognize their faces.

Annemarie remembers how she and her sister Lise would wave at King Christian X on his morning rides through Copenhagen.

The girls play with paper dolls together, and Ellen reveals a natural gift for acting out characters and stories.

Kirsti receives new shoes made of fish skin, and Ellen suggests dyeing them black with ink to disguise the material.

The Danish navy destroys its own fleet with explosions, and Kirsti later misremembers the blasts as Tivoli fireworks from her birthday.

The Rosen family walks solemnly to synagogue for the Jewish New Year as the Johansens watch from their street.

Annemarie tears Ellen's Star of David necklace from her neck moments before German soldiers enter the girls' bedroom.

Mr. Johansen uses a coded phone call about fishing and cigarettes to secretly warn Uncle Henrik the family is coming.

German soldiers board the train and question Mrs. Johansen, but Kirsti distracts them by excitedly showing off her new shoes.

Annemarie confronts Uncle Henrik alone in the barn and accuses him of lying about the existence of Great-Aunt Birte.

The Rosen family arrives at the farmhouse late at night and Peter carries Ellen to her waiting parents.

Mrs. Johansen collapses outside the farmhouse with a broken ankle after walking back alone from Henrik's boat in the dark.

Annemarie milks the farmhouse cow alone for the first time after returning home to find her mother and Kirsti gone.

The war ends and the Johansen family waves Danish flags from their apartment balcony as neighbors celebrate in the streets.

This pool captures the secondary moments and character details that give the main story its depth and texture, tracing how ordinary life under occupation forced everyday people into acts of quiet ingenuity. From Kirsti's reckless innocence with soldiers to the domestic realities of wartime shortages, these events show how the war reshaped every corner of daily life in Copenhagen and beyond. Key deceptions — a coded phone call about fishing, shoes dyed with ink, a child's excited chatter on a train — reveal how wit and innocence became tools of resistance for ordinary families. The journey to the farmhouse and the events that follow show bravery appearing in small, unplanned moments as much as in grand gestures. The pool closes with the relief and sorrow of liberation, as the Johansen family celebrates the war's end from their apartment balcony.

The smaller moments of courage, deception, and friendship that shaped the escape.

Annemarie privately wonders whether she would have the courage to die protecting the Rosens if the situation ever demanded it.

Mr. Johansen explains to Annemarie that all of Denmark must act as bodyguards to Jewish people, as they did for the king.

Mr. Johansen quietly tells Annemarie that Ellen's parents are safely hidden and asks her to treat Ellen as a sister.

Ellen confesses to Annemarie in the dark that she is truly afraid of dying before finally falling asleep.

Annemarie notices that Ellen is still wearing her Star of David necklace as the two girls talk quietly about Lise in bed.

Uncle Henrik tells Annemarie in the barn that it is easier to be brave when you do not know everything.

Annemarie and her mother exchange a silent knowing look at the fake funeral and silently become equals who share the secret.

Mrs. Johansen brazenly offers to open the coffin herself when a German officer threatens to expose what is inside.

Peter reads a psalm about numbering the stars aloud, and Annemarie feels overwhelmed by how vast and cruel the world seems.

Peter presses a sealed packet into Mr. Rosen's hands and insists he must deliver it to Henrik's boat no matter what.

A nursing mother reluctantly allows Peter to give her baby a drug so it will stay asleep and silent during the crossing.

Annemarie deliberately chooses the darker forest path to the harbor, reminding herself that unlike fairy tales, there are no real wolves.

Uncle Henrik tells Annemarie in the barn that Peter has always been a member of the Danish Resistance.

Annemarie's parents take her to Peter's grave and reveal that Lise was a Resistance member killed by the Nazis.

Annemarie takes out Ellen's Star of David necklace and asks her father to fix the clasp so she can wear it until Ellen returns.

This pool focuses on the emotional and moral turning points that define Annemarie's coming-of-age journey, beginning with her private doubts about her own courage and building through a series of revelations that gradually strip away her childhood innocence. The fake funeral becomes a crucible of conflicting loyalties, where secret looks, a threatening officer, and a psalm about stars all force Annemarie to confront the true scale of the world's cruelty. Each small decision — staying quiet about the coffin's emptiness, allowing Peter to drug a baby, choosing the darker forest path — accumulates into the kind of bravery Annemarie never believed she possessed. The climax is reached not in a dramatic showdown, but in a quiet, deliberate act of will as Annemarie walks into the dark alone. The pool closes with the war's aftermath, as devastating truths about Lise and Peter are finally spoken aloud, and Annemarie honors her absent friend by deciding to wear Ellen's Star of David necklace until she returns.