Vianne's actions here are not unlike Isabelle's at the beginning of the book. Her new job is regularly going into town and collecting illicit papers for the good of the resistance. However, in this case, Vianne is distributing new identities to Jewish children who desperately need them to stay alive rather than distributing pamphlets. Luckily, Von Richter is too self-absorbed to catch on to what Vienne is doing.