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1934
Marie-Laure is a freckled six-year-old who turns blind, and her father builds a miniature model of their neighborhood. -
1934
Marie-Laure’s father works for the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Marie-Laure first hears about the Sea of Flames, a stone so valuable yet it's rumored to be cursed. -
1934
Werner Pfennig grows up in a place called Zollverein with his younger sister, Jutta, raised at Children’s House. -
1934
When Werner is eight years old, his sister, Jutta, and himself found an untreated radio and later on, he started fixing others too. -
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1940
Werner becomes a great expert in building and fixing objects and because of that he gets an opportunity to go to the school, Hitler Youth. -
1940
At age 12, Marie-Laure and her father go to Saint-Malo because the Nazis occupy Paris, and they carry the most dangerous stone. -
1942
Marie-Laure lives with her great-uncle, Etienne, and onced with Madame Manec, but she died, and her father until he got arrested. -
1944
Werner travels in a group of five people. Neumann One and Two, Bernd the engineer, and Volkheimer the sergeant because Werner is eighteen and, now, allowed to go anywhere with these people for work. -
1944
Werner ends up with Volkheimer and Bernd underneath the Hotel of Bees for a duty. -
1944
Werner finally meets Marie-Laure when he saves her from the German sergeant, Von Rumpel, from where she lives. Von Rumpel wanted the Sea of Flames from Marie-Laure because her father put it in the miniature model.
