Henrik fishes daily in the strait between Denmark and Sweden, and the girls help with farm chores. Johansen takes the girls to visit Annemarie’s Uncle Henrik, hoping they will be safer in the country. As a baby, Lise had dark hair like Ellen has. Annemarie’s father helps avert disaster by showing the soldiers old photos of his three daughters.
Annemarie breaks a gold clasp in a hurried effort to remove Ellen’s Star of David necklace. The first night of Ellen’s stay, German soldiers barge into the Johansens’ apartment. Ellen’s parents go into hiding, and Ellen poses as Annemarie’s sister Lise, who died in a car accident earlier in the war. The soldiers’ threatening presence becomes more sinister when the Rosens learn that the Nazis intend to relocate Denmark’s Jewish population. Annemarie’s little sister, Kirsti, is bolder and scolds the soldiers who question them on their way home from school. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, who is Jewish, are frightened by the soldiers who stand guard on every street corner. It’s 1943, and the Johansens live in a small apartment in German-occupied Copenhagen, Denmark.
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