前情提要：Max (Sarah的爸爸)從囚禁猶太人的監牢回到家裡，看見昔日擁有的商店被納粹摧毀了，女兒們也在比利時。Hilda (Sarah的媽媽)跟Max要決定下一步，他們什麼都沒有了，他們現在該怎麼做呢？
既然商店已經被納粹摧毀，而且兩個女兒又已經送去比利時，Max和Hilda決定要想盡辦法到比利時，他們打電話給親戚說他們會過去與他們會合，但猶太人當時要逃離德國幾乎是不可能的任務，親戚們並不抱著能順利見到他們的希望。
Max和Hilda打聽到有個走私販可以開卡車帶他們到比利時的邊境，但問題是，他們沒有車要怎麼從Dortmund到卡車司機在的城市就是一個問題了，因為根據紐倫堡法案，猶太人不准搭乘火車，所以他們該怎麼辦呢？
他們又打聽到可以偷偷躲在火車底下 (當時的火車跟鐵軌之間是有間隙的)，因為納粹德國份子只會檢查在火車裡每個人的證件和車票。
所以，只要可以裝得若無其事地走進火車站，在趁沒有人看到的時候躲到火車底下，在火車開動前就掛好自己，火車開動的幾個小時都不要鬆手….
說起來容易，但做起來一點都不輕鬆，除了不可能攜帶任何行李，手沒抓緊的話就死定了。
可是這是唯一的方法，為了能見到孩子，Max和Hilda真的完成了不可能的任務。
他們成功的到了靠近邊境的城市，找到了走私人口的卡車司機，談好了價格，然後就躲在卡車內木材和卡車座位之間那一點點的空間，除了他們以後，還有另外兩個猶太女孩，跟他們一起站在那個小小的空隙。
到了檢查站，納粹德國士兵要求卡車司機打開車門，因為要看有沒偷藏人在裡面。司機開了車門，納粹士兵只看到一堆木頭，但為了以防萬一，還是往裡面開了幾槍。這一定是奇蹟，他們四人竟然沒有人受傷。
卡車司機開離檢查站後，竟然跟四個乘客要求更多的錢，因為這個任務風險太高了，而且他的卡車還被損壞了，於是四個乘客只好乖乖再付額外一筆錢。但又過了一個檢查哨，卡車司機又多要一次錢，到了第三次，兩個猶太女生沒有錢可以給了，卡車司機就要她們滾。
Max其實不認識這兩個女生，他們在車上也沒有任何的交談(不可能發出聲音的)，但他不可能見死不救。他做了一個很偉大的決定，其實也是一個很大行善的誡命(Mitzvah)，他用他所剩不多的錢，幫這兩個女生付了卡車司機要求的賠償，救了她們免於被丟在路途上的命運。而終於，卡車過了邊境，抵達了比利時，卡車司機把這四個猶太人放在路邊後就離去。
當Max和Hilda出現在比利時親戚家時，大家都不敢相信他們成功了，相隔三個月，才兩歲的小Sarah看到父母出現時，先是沒有任何反應，後來突然意識到什麼了，就嚎啕大哭了起來，Sarah的姊姊Susan、Hilda以及比利時親戚們也都跟著哭了。
在那個歇斯底里的場景，Max悄悄在心裡做了兩個決定，一個是要儘早離開納粹會到的地方，而另一個則是他們全家人再也不會分開。
『Ep06 The Impossible Reunion 』Recap: Max (Sarah’s father) returned home from prison (where Jews were arrested) and saw that the shop he owned had been destroyed by the Nazis. His daughters were sent to Belgium. Hilda (Sarah’s mother) and Max had to decide what to do next. Nothing was left for them in Germany. What should they do now?
Now that the store has been destroyed by the Nazis and the two daughters have been sent to Belgium, Max and Hilda decide to try their best to get to Belgium. They called their relatives and say they would come and join them. But it was impossible for Jews to flee Germany! The relatives did not hold out hope to see them again.
Max and Hilda found a truck driver who could smuggle them to the Belgian border. But the problem was, how could they get to where the truck driver was from Dortmund? According to the Nuremberg laws, Jews were forbidden to ride the train. So what should they do?
They were told that they could secretly go under the train. Back then, there was a gap between the train and the rails. The Nazis would only check passenger’s ID and ticket on the train. So ideally speaking, as long as they could walk into the train station without raising suspicion, hide under the train when no one was looking, then hang themselves under the train before the train started, and hang on for hours when the train was moving….
It’s easier said than done. They could not have possibly brought any luggage with them, and this would cost their lives if they didn’t hang on tightly.
However, this was the only solution. In order to see their kids again, Max and Hilda did the impossible.
They managed to reach the city near the border, found the truck driver, negotiated the price, and then hid in the hidden compartment between the timber and the truck seats, not visible from outside. Besides them, there were two Jewish teenage girls, they all stood upright in the tiny space.
When they arrived at the checkpoint, the Nazi German soldiers asked the truck driver to open the door to check if anyone was hiding inside. The driver opened the door, and the Nazi soldiers saw only timber, yet one of the soldiers still decided to shoot into the timber to make sure no one was hiding inside. It must be a miracle that no one got hurt.
After leaving the checkpoint, the driver asked for more money from the four passengers because he said the mission was too risky and his truck was damaged. So the four passengers had to pay an additional sum obediently. But after another checkpoint, the truck driver asked for more money. When he asked for money the third time, the two Jewish girls had no more money to give. The truck driver told them to get off.
Max didn’t know these two girls, and they didn’t have any conversation in the car (it was impossible to make a sound), but he couldn’t do nothing. He made an honorable decision, which was also a mitzvah (a commandment to do good). He used the little money he had left to pay for these two girls to save them from being abandoned on the road. Finally, the truck crossed the border and arrived in Belgium. The truck driver left all of them by the road and left.
When Max and Hilda showed up at their relatives’ house in Belgium, no one could believe that they had succeeded! It’s been three months since the 2-year-old Sarah saw her parents again. At first, she did not react, but then she suddenly realized something and started crying loudly. Sarah’s sister Susan, Hilda, and the relatives all cried.
In that hysterical moment, Max made two great decisions in his mind. One was to leave the place where the Nazis would arrive as soon as possible, and the other was that his family would never be separated again.
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