Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe Timeline & Summary

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Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe Timeline & Summary

  • Einar tries on Anna's shoes and dress. They look good; he feels good.
  • Greta suggests they call his new female alter ego Lili.
  • Einar dresses up as Lili often; she goes as Lili to a ball where she meets Henrik.
  • But she doesn't want to tell Henrik that she is biologically male, so she breaks it off with him.
  • Einar reunites with his childhood friend Hans in Paris. Yay.
  • Also in Paris, Einar decides to commit suicide if he can't live as Lili all the time. Oh no.
  • With the help of Greta's brother, Carlisle, Einar visits a variety of doctors who give him variations on the same bad advice: give up.
  • But Greta sends Einar to a doctor who can perform an operation that will change Einar's sex traits from male to female.
  • In Dresden, Einar visits the Brühlsche Terrace, looks at the Elbe River, and gives Lili the last name Elbe.
  • Then he has the surgery and successfully becomes Lili.
  • Greta and Einar divorce, and Lili reunites with Henrik in Copenhagen.
  • Henrik proposes, and Lili says yes, but she wants one last surgery first: a uterine transplant so that she may have a baby.
  • The surgery causes a fatal infection, and Lili dies. Sniffle.