Hana (Juliette Binoche)’s Timeline and Summary

Hana (Juliette Binoche)’s Timeline and Summary

  • Hana, a war nurse, learns that her boyfriend was killed in war.
  • Then she watches as her friend Jan hits a land mine and explodes.
  • Hana is afraid that everyone she loves will die.
  • She takes her burned patient to a monastery so they don't have to keep loading and unloading him on the medical caravan.
  • Plus, she needs some alone time.
  • She reads to her patient and takes care of him, until David Caravaggio shows up and attempts to interrogate her patient.
  • Then, Kip, the minesweeper, shows up, and Hana falls in love with him.
  • But after Sergeant Hardy is killed in a horrible accident, Kip leaves. At least he didn't die!
  • At Almásy's request, Hana gives him an overdose of morphine.
  • She reads Katharine's last words to Almásy, and he dies.
  • Caravaggio helps Hana catch a ride to catch up with the rest of her medical unit, and she rides across the Italian countryside.