A neighbor calls Hannah and her family 'dirty people' in the elevator, exposing the anti-Jewish hostility sweeping Berlin.

Anna receives a mysterious package from Cuba containing old photographs, film negatives, and a German magazine.

Hannah's father announces at a family dinner that they will travel to America by stopping first in Cuba.

Nazi police arrive at the Rosenthal apartment, search the rooms, and take Hannah's father to the police station.

Anna discovers at a school memorial ceremony that her father's name appears on a list of September 11 victims.

Hannah's family boards the MS St. Louis at Hamburg and Captain Schröder greets Hannah's parents as honored guests.

Leo warns Hannah on her birthday that her parents plan to poison the whole family with cyanide if denied entry to Cuba.

The St. Louis arrives in Havana harbor but the Cuban government refuses to allow the passengers to disembark.

Hannah finds the cyanide capsules hidden inside her mother's antique jewel case and hands them to Leo to dispose of.

Hannah and her mother board the small boat Argus and are permanently separated from Hannah's father and Leo.

Anna and her mother arrive in Havana and meet Aunt Hannah for the first time at her faded Vedado home.

Aunt Hannah reveals to Anna that Leo and his father never left the St. Louis when it sailed back toward Europe.

Aunt Hannah tells Anna that Hannah's father was transported to Auschwitz, where he eventually let himself die.

The revolutionary government seizes Hannah's pharmacy and Julian abandons Hannah by leaving Cuba for New York.

Hannah opens the indigo box on her final day and finds Leo's mother's diamond ring and an old cyanide capsule inside.

Hannah grows up in Nazi Berlin where her Jewish family faces mounting persecution before securing passage on the MS St. Louis. On the Atlantic crossing, Hannah races to find her parents' hidden cyanide capsules after learning the ship may be denied entry to Cuba. Separated from her father and Leo on Havana's harbor, Hannah begins a new life in Cuba while decades later in New York, Anna searches for the truth about her lost father. Anna travels to Cuba and meets her Aunt Hannah, who slowly reveals what truly happened to the people she loved on the St. Louis. The two storylines converge as shared losses and a common heritage link the two protagonists across generations. Hannah's final day brings her full circle, as she opens a box Leo pressed into her hands sixty-five years before.

The headline events of Hannah and Anna's connected stories.

Hannah and Leo escape a hostile street photographer only to find that a Jewish café has been smashed and shuttered.

A propaganda photographer's street portrait of Hannah ends up on the cover of the Das Deutsche Madel magazine.

Leo excitedly tells Hannah that both their families are departing for Cuba, which he enthusiastically misspells as 'Khuba.'

Hannah visits Leo's apartment building and finds it completely empty; his family has vanished overnight with their suitcases.

Anna and her mother visit a former St. Louis passenger named Mrs. Berenson at her home in the Bronx.

Alma refuses the driver's suggestion to leave the apartment building by the back door, insisting they are not fugitives.

Alma complains to Captain Schröder about a Nazi flag hanging in the ship's ballroom and it is taken down.

Leo gives Hannah his mother's wedding ring on the ship's deck and the two dance together to 'Moonlight Serenade.'

Alma announces to Hannah during the Atlantic crossing that she is pregnant with another child.

Mr. Adler dies at sea on Hannah's birthday and is given a funeral onboard before being thrown overboard.

A desperate Mr. Moser cuts his own veins in the night after Hannah's father promised to help save him.

Hannah and her mother move into a house in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, where Hortensia greets them at the door.

Alma returns to Havana from New York with her newborn son Gustav, whose arrival briefly reopens the household.

Gustavo arrives home wearing revolutionary military fatigues and introduces his new wife Viera, announcing she is pregnant.

Anna shares her first kiss with Diego just before leaving Cuba to return to New York.

These events capture the texture of Hannah and Anna's worlds beyond the headline moments — the friendships, small acts of resistance, and intimate discoveries that define each character. In Berlin, Hannah and Leo navigate a city turning against them while Anna in New York begins piecing together her family's history before ever reaching Cuba. Onboard the St. Louis, Hannah experiences both joy and tragedy as she makes new friends, watches a love story bloom, and witnesses death at sea. In Cuba, Hannah and her mother build a quiet life while history continues to reshape everything around them. Each event reveals how ordinary moments — a dance on deck, a ring given in secret, a mother's refusal to use the back door — carry profound weight in times of upheaval. The pool ends with Anna's first kiss, which quietly echoes the love that was stolen from Hannah so many years before.

The supporting moments that shaped Hannah and Anna's journeys.

Hannah scrubs herself with scalding water after her Aryan neighbor's 'dirty' insult, trying to physically remove the accusation.

Hannah and Leo secretly crouch beneath the Ogre's window to hear a radio broadcast announcing devastating new anti-Jewish property laws.

Anna and her mother develop Hannah's roll of film at a Chelsea photo lab and Anna learns she has German heritage.

Anna has a nightmare about drowning in the ocean and wakes determined to propose a birthday trip to Cuba.

Anna's mother gives Anna a box of her father's possessions, including a love letter he wrote before Anna was born.

Hannah's father returns home from police detention gaunt and shaved; Leo quietly reveals the family has acquired cyanide capsules.

Hannah begins trembling and then crying as the car carries her family away from Berlin for the last time.

Captain Schröder invites Hannah and Leo up to the bridge, where the port of Hamburg looks tiny far below.

Walter calls Hannah 'the famous German girl' as she and Leo race around the ship meeting new friends onboard.

Hannah slips away from the fancy dress ball while her parents make their grand entrance and secretly searches their empty cabin.

Hannah's father cries out 'Hannah, forget your name!' repeatedly as the Argus pulls her away from the St. Louis.

Hannah changes her name to 'Jana' on her new Cuban identity card, adding a J to link her past and present.

Anna and her mother visit the Rosen family cemetery and find a blank tombstone already reserved for Aunt Hannah.

Hannah meets Julian during violent student protests outside Havana's Faculty of Pharmacy when he shouts at her to get down.

Hannah learns that her nephew Louis died in the September 11 attacks and left behind a daughter named Anna.

This pool follows the pivotal moments in which characters discover hard truths, make life-altering choices, or undergo profound emotional shifts. From Hannah's scalding bath after being called 'dirty' to Anna's realization that her father had German roots, each event marks a clear before and after in a character's understanding of themselves and their world. The St. Louis chapters capture moments of dread and determination — a midnight search of a cabin, a father's final cry across the water. In Cuba, Hannah quietly reinvents herself with a new name while Anna uncovers the physical traces of a family legacy waiting for her. The revelations deepen as Hannah imagines Leo's fate aboard the returning ship and the Cuban revolution strips away everything she has built. The pool closes with Hannah finally learning that her nephew Louis — Anna's father — perished on September 11, setting in motion the reunion that connects the two protagonists.