 Josef's last words are "how does it end", with Sage replying "like this" and leaving, not realizing that the words were in fact about Minka's story, which she never completed.Once Sage returns home, she discovers that the hospital wristband Josef was wearing states his blood type as B+, although Reiner's was known to be AB.After rifling through his possessions, Sage also finds the story that her grandmother wrote during her time in Auschwitz on the back of photos of dead Jews, which had been taken by Reiner's brother, Franz, who had made up his own ending to the story as he was desperate for closure.