As I read I felt bad for Hanneke because all she does is try to help her family survive and now that she was asked by Mrs.Janssen for a favor to find a girl everything is getting hard for her.She works as a receptionist and she also works in a black market as her second job to get more money. She does everything for her family because her father can’t since he was badly hurt during the Great War. Living in Amsterdam has changed because she sees her Jewish neighbors being taken to concentration camps. Her best friend moved away. Her boyfriend Sebastian Van de Kamp was killed on the Dutch front two years ago. So almost everything things is going south for her.