

Isabelle compares her own life to a prison as well, asserting she knows just as much about suffering in her own way. Gaëtan has been in prison and thinks he knows what war will be like. Isabelle and Gaëtan take shelter in a church, but even the church is bombed.īoth Gaëtan and Isabelle claim to know about the trials of real life. Suddenly German planes swoop overhead, dropping bombs and gunning down the defenseless refugees.

“No one,” the soldier answers, but Isabelle responds, “We will be.”ĭisheartened by the encounter, they continue to travel amid the crowd of refugees. Isabelle yells that they are going the wrong way, and Gaëtan holds a knife to one soldier’s throat, asking who is fighting for France. He insists that someone like Isabelle wouldn’t understand, but Isabelle maintains that more than one kind of prison exists.Īs they travel toward Carriveau, they meet a regiment of French soldiers fleeing the war front.

When Gaëtan and Isabelle wake the following morning, Gaëtan explains that he had been imprisoned for theft.
