Kaunas, Lithuania. September 4, 1940.
A train is about to leave the station. On board is Chiune Sugihara, Japan's consul in Lithuania. He has been ordered to leave the country.
He is still writing.
For weeks, Sugihara has been handwriting Japanese transit visas for Jewish refugees from Poland, trapped in a country the Soviet Union is taking over. Each visa is a way out: permission to cross the Soviet Union, pass through Japan and escape the war closing in on Europe.
His own government told him not to issue them. He did it anyway.
Now there is no time left. On the platform, people are still waiting for one. He hands the last papers out through the train window.
"Please forgive me," he says. "I cannot write anymore. I wish you the best."
The train begins to move.
By then, he had written more than 2,100 visas, many of them covering whole families.