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- Heidi lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps in the summer, and she and Peter play and tend the goats. In the winter, she stays with Peter's mother, and she and Peter attend school. One day a letter arrives from Heidi's friend Klara Sesemann, an ill youngster who spends most of her time in wheelchair, stating that she is coming to visit. The teacher has been having trouble getting Peter to study, and Heidi's grandfather decides to pose as Santa Claus and scare him into it. This is successful, and Heidi helps Peter learn to read. they attend school. The arrival of summer also brings Klara, with her grandmother and her prim governess Rottenmeyer. Heidi's grandfather suggests that Frau Sesemann stay with him and Heidi, while Rottermeyer stays in the village to visit and keep an eye on Klara. Peter is resentful and destroys Klara's wheelchair. Heidi's grandfather is secretly pleased, as he feels that Klara doesn't really need it. Calamity strikes when a storm causes the brook to overflow, flooding the village and wrecking many houses. Klara pitches in to help and forgets about her illness, emerging a healthy and happy girl. Her father is overjoyed and organizes a festival in a nearby town to help the stricken village.
- On May 10, 1940, at 03:00 a.m., the Western Front begins to move. The German Wehrmacht invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg to roll up the Maginot Line. On his round of checks, the Swiss railroad guard Tschumi meets the dripping wet German refugee Werner Kramer who has swum across the Rhine. Kramer hopes that the "Heftis", old and wealthy friends of Zurich, will help him. But the news of the German invasion has a shock effect on the Swiss, changing their situation and mood. A truck driver takes Kramer with him for a while and even gives him lunch, but then suddenly leaves him sitting there. In Zurich, the refugee learns that the Heftis have set off for Central Switzerland. At the station, chance brings him together with the tailor Anna Marti, whom he has known since childhood. Anna gives him shelter in the studio and takes him home in the evening. But that doesn't suit her partner, the widowed brother-in-law Albert Widmer, at all. He even thinks about denouncing Kramer. But Kramer realizes for himself that he won't make any progress. He turns himself into the police. After a long night at the police station, he is left with the anxious question of what his prospects are for an asylum application.