Bruno Timeline & Summary

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• Bruno comes home to find Maria packing his belongings. Surprise—it's moving time.
• Goodbye Berlin, and hello Auschwitz. Bruno doesn't like the new place and tries to convince his father to move back.
• To take his mind off his situation, Bruno builds a tire swing for entertainment. When he falls off, though, Pavel, who is Jewish, cleans him up—he tells Bruno he's a doctor, but Bruno doesn't believe him.
• Bruno notices lots of children on the other side of the fence and points this out to his sister.
• In a flashback, Bruno remembers last Christmas when his grandmother left the house because she was disgusted by his father's new position as a Nazi commandant; he writes her a letter.
• One day, Bruno goes exploring and sees a boy—Shmuel—who lives on the other side of the fence.
• Another flashback to the night the Fury and his girlfriend come to dinner, and afterward, Bruno overhears his parents arguing about moving to Auschwitz.
• In the present, Pavel drops a bottle of wine in Kotler's lap; the soldier gets angry and does something that makes Bruno cry.
• Shmuel shows up in Bruno's kitchen—he's there to clean glasses for father's birthday party—and Bruno gives him food. But when Kotler catches them talking, Shmuel says Bruno is his friend and Bruno straight-up denies it.
• A few days later, Bruno apologizes and the boys shake hands.
• Bruno asks Gretel questions about the fence and the people, and she tells him they are Jews and the fence is to keep them separated from Germans.
• Almost a year later, Bruno's mother wants to go back to Berlin.
• Bad news and more bad news: Bruno tells Shmuel he's leaving and Shmuel says his dad's missing.
• They make a plan to search for Shmuel's dad together the next day.
• Disguised in a pair of pajamas, Bruno realizes that Auschwitz is a sketchy place—he wants to leave, but he's promised Shmuel he'll help find his dad, so he keeps his word. They don't find Shmuel's dad, though.
• The boys are surrounded by soldiers and marched with a group of Jews to a gas chamber.
• Bruno's family is left baffled by his disappearance; his mother and Gretel go back to Berlin and his father stays in Auschwitz.