Please answer the following question: Build a movie plot around this: What is the final part of the film based on? The book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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As the film opens, Henri's father, a chauffeur, is falsely accused of having murdered his boss. During his trial and imprisonment, Henri's mother finds a job in a tavern on a Normandy beach. There Henri sees a film adaptation of Les Miserables. His father dies attempting to escape from prison, and upon hearing the news Henri's mother commits suicide. Henri grows up an orphan and learns boxing.The film next takes up the story of Elisa, a ballerina, and Andre Ziman, a young Jewish journalist and law student. They meet following a performance of a ballet based on Les Miserables. Later, during World War II, Andre and Elisa, now married, and their daughter Salome attempt to cross the Swiss border to escape the Nazis. They encounter Henri, who owns a moving company, and they discuss the Hugo novel. The Zimans entrust Salome to Henri and enroll her in a Catholic convent school. Andre and Elisa are ambushed while trying to cross the frontier. Elisa is arrested and Andre wounded. Farmers who find him give him shelter.Henri and the members of a local gang join the French Resistance, but the gang members take advantage of their anti-Nazi attacks to steal from local houses. Elisa and other women are forced to entertain the Nazi occupiers. She is sent to a concentration camp for being defiant. After staging an attack on a train transporting funds for the Vichy government, Henri and his mates travel to Normandy to visit the tavern where he lived as a child. The D-Day invasion is launched the next day and Henri supports the Allied forces when they conquer the beach. In the process he saves the life of the tavern owner's son Marius.At the war's end, Henri accepts an offer to run a seaside camp in Normandy. There he receives a letter from Salome, who has no way of contacting her family. He takes her with him to the resort, which he names Chez Jean Valjean. Elisa, having survived a Nazi concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, joins them later.A former Vichy police agent accuses Henri of abetting the gang's...