Isabelle’s resistance colleagues ask her to carry a letter to Paris and to remain there to continue her resistance work. Soon after, Vianne is guilt-stricken when everyone on the list is fired from their teaching jobs. Vianne, however, becomes fond of Beck and agrees to give him a list of the Jews and Communists who teach at her school, including her best friend, Rachel.
Isabelle, outraged by this arrangement, joins the French resistance movement and begins distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets around Carriveau. The invading Germans assign a Nazi officer named Beck to live with Vianne. Vianne tends to Isabelle, and together they learn that France has surrendered to Germany. Deciding that Isabelle is not ready for war, Gaëtan leaves for the war front the next morning without her. As a result, Isabelle and Gaëtan find themselves locked out and sleep in Vianne’s yard. When the crowd of Parisian refugees reaches Carriveau, Vianne locks her house because she cannot help them all. Eager to do something meaningful with her life, she agrees. She journeys on alone and meets her future lover, Gaëtan, who invites her to go to war with him.
Isabelle evacuates Paris, along with thousands of others, and is separated from her companions in the crowd. Julien reluctantly allows her to stay with him, but he soon changes his mind when the Germans break through the French defensive line and approach Paris. Meanwhile, Isabelle is expelled from a French girls’ school and sent home to her estranged father, Julien, in Paris. When Vianne’s husband, Antoine, is conscripted to fight for France against the attacking Germans, Vianne and their daughter, Sophie, try to continue normal life in Carriveau without him, imagining that he will return soon. The Nightingale covers five primary periods in the lives of Vianne (Rossignol) Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol:
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