Leter that night at the festival, during their final number, the von trapp family slip away and seek shelter at the nearby, where mother's abbess hides them in the cemetery crypt. Nazi soldiers soon arrive and search the abbey, but the family is able to escape able to escape using the caretakers car. When the soldiers attempt to pursue, they discover their cars will not start as two nuns have removed parts of their engines. The next morning, after driving to the border, the von trapp family make their way on foot across the mountains into Switzerland to freedom