Summary

In the Ania story, Ania finds herself in the village marketplace with one more baguette left to sell before she can return home to her father. A soldier named Damian teases her about buying it, but then kisses her and says that if she marries him, she will never have to worry about her father's unpaid taxes again. She runs away, but when she gets home she finds that her father has been brutally murdered.

The next section is told from Sage’s perspective. Sage finds it hard to reconcile her image of Josef with the photo he shows her of a much younger man in a Nazi uniform, but she does not close the door on the idea of helping him die. She returns to the bakery, where a large crowd has gathered to see a loaf of bread Sage baked...