Heydrich succumbed to his wounds after all. The perpetrators celebrate in their hiding place in the crypt of a church. In revenge, the Germans destroy two villages. The women and children are taken away and all men over the age of fifteen are executed. One man survives. He was in prison when the village burned down. In the cell, no one tells him what happened to his village. After the war, he returns to a house that is no longer there.