Volkheimer, now middle aged, receives a letter saying they have possessions they think belonged to someone in his company. He recognizes the items as Werners. He collects them and decides to bring them to Jutta. Jutta had started a life of her own, and has a Husband and a child. She hardly thinks of the war, because it hurts to much. When Volkheimer comes she does take the items from him, but is shaken up by the memories. Going through them she finds the model house. Jutta decides to return the model house to Marie-Laure. She finds Marie-Laure working in the museum in Paris. They talk for one afternoon, and Marie-Laure learns it was Juttas brother who saved her. Before they leave Marie-Laure gives Jutta the last recording left from her grandfather. When Marie-Laure re-opens the house, there is no diamond inside, meaning Werner must have left it in the cave. Jutta also finds, in her brothers bag, a picture of a bird with Fredricks address on it. When this letter reaches Frederick he is still severely disabled. However this image, and an Owl he sees outside triggers a slight response from him.
Chapter 153 Volkheimer
Chapter 159 Paper Airplane
- Chapter begins with the mundane description of 51 year old Frank Volkheimers mundane life
- Volkheimer works alone as a antenna repair man and wears a blue jumpsuit stretched and faded from his size everyday he works
- F.V feels most at home on the cold winter days
- Frank is exhausted with his life on the warm days
- F.V checks his mail and finds two packages which he brings into his house
- The packages contain a soldier's bag, inside it a model house, slightly broken and a notebook, W.P inscribed in the bottom corner
- Volkheimer knows whom these items belonged to and remembers how they were all just boys, even the biggest of them
- Jutta is now a sixth form algebra teacher, hair white as ever, wearing a regular rotation of the same clothing to work
- Jutta is married and has a singular son, Max, a boy recently fascinated by paper airplanes
- She is married to a man named Albert, who has a job accounting
- One night, unexpectedly, Volkheimer brings her Werner's duffle bag
- He tells her what he can remember about Werner
- He tells her what he can remember about Werner
- Jutta has a hard time hearing these things, she doesn't want to remember the war
- Jutta doesn’t look through Werners bag tell late that night
- Inside she finds a model house, his notebook, and an envelope addressed to Frederick
- Looking through the notebook she is reminded of her childhood with her brother
- She remembers Frederick as a boy Werner used to write about
- Looking through the notebook she is reminded of her childhood with her brother
- Inside she finds a model house, his notebook, and an envelope addressed to Frederick
- Jutta and Max take a trip to Saint-Malo
- Jutta brings the model house, and Werner's notebook
- Jutta brings the model house, and Werner's notebook
- The next day they go to the ocean, Jutta finds herself experiencing it in the same glory Werner did
- Jutta notes how the city looks completely rebuilt
- Jutta takes the model house to a Museum where a man shows her where the real house is
- Wondering why Werner has this model Jutta gets the address of Marie-Laure, the girl who lived there during the war
- Wondering why Werner has this model Jutta gets the address of Marie-Laure, the girl who lived there during the war
- Max tells Jutta that the house can open
- Marie-Laure lives in Paris
- She runs a small laboratory at the museum
- She runs a small laboratory at the museum
- Etienne is now dead, but they used to travel the world together
- They also hired many investigators to find out what happened to her father but they never found very few answers
- She lives in her childhood apartment
- With her one daughter
- With her one daughter
- One day at work she is told she has a visitor
- The visitor is Jutta
- The visitor is Jutta
- Jutta shows Marie-Laure the model of the house
- Marie-Laure thinks about how the boy who took this model saved her three different times
- Jutta tells Marie-Laure that Werner died in the war
- Marie-Laure tells Jutta how she was told Jutta and her brother used to listen to her grandfather's broadcasts
- Jutta gives Marie-Laure the model house
- Marie-Laure says she will mail Jutta the last left recording of her grandfathers
- Jutta and Max leave
Chapter 159 Paper Airplane
- Jutta and max go back to the hotel
- Jutta notes how the town looks like it does not remember the war
- Max makes a paper airplane and throws it out the window
- Marie-Laure wonders why Werner went back for the house
- She wonders what he did with the stone
- She opens the house and inside is the key to the grotto
- In the beginning of its creation it was stone in a river
- It caught the attention of a prince
- It caught the attention of a prince
- Now it lies in the sea
- Forgotten and unnoticed by the creatures that dwell there
- Forgotten and unnoticed by the creatures that dwell there
- Frederick lives with his mother
- They still live in East Berlin
- They still live in East Berlin
- His father dies in the war
- His mother has tried to keep what happened to Frederick a secret
- She is lonely and does not have many friends anymore
- She is lonely and does not have many friends anymore
- Frederick still draws spirals continuously
- One day she receives a letter from a woman (Jutta)
- The letter is from Juttas brother (Werner)
- Inside the letter is a picture of two birds
- The letter is from Juttas brother (Werner)
- She shows the images to Jutta but doesn’t get more than a momentary glance from him
- At night they sit on the deck and see an owl
- This triggers a response from Frederick and he asks”What are we doing, Mutti?”
- This triggers a response from Frederick and he asks”What are we doing, Mutti?”