Sightless sixteen-year-old Marie-Laure Leblanc is Kneeling over table running her fingers over a miniature model of the city
white-haired eighteen-year-old German private Werner Pfennig. Werner is in a hotel; bordering up the windows and overturning every bed reinforced entrances and packed the stairwells.
while Marie's father works at the museum, he sends her on a children's tour of the museum. The museum tour guide tells the story of "The Sea of Flames"
Rumors have been going around about the museum displaying a certain gem. workers of the museum saying it's from japan, one's saying it came from the vault in the museum another saying it's made of sapphire
Wener finds out that he is good at fixing radios and goes all over town fixing people's radios at their request, he sometimes gets food or money
The Germans are coming for France and everyone in France is fleeing including Marie and her father. They are trying to escape but there no trains so they just go one foot. Marie's father is carrying the Sea of Flames