When the final moment arrives—Fontaine and Jost crawling across the stone rooftop, reaching the outer wall, climbing the rope to the sound of gunfire—the liberation is almost anti-climactic. They fall over the wall. The frame cuts to black. There is no triumphant fanfare. There is only the silence and the text overlay: "They helped the maquis. Joined de Gaulle in Lyon. 1943."
